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Pharisaical, a.|færɪˈseɪɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
†1. = Pharisaic 1. Obs.
1538Bale Thre Lawes 1604 As Cayphas ones sayd in counsell pharysaycall. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 124 The want of which office Christ obiected to another of his Pharisaicall hostes. 1831Burton Eccl. Hist. viii. (1845) 189 The Pharisaical part of the Council declared him to be innocent.
2. = Pharisaic 2.
1531Tindale Exp. 1 John ii. 3 (1537) 37 Our pharisaycall doctours haue no doctrine to knowe when a man is in the state of grace. 1625Bacon Ess., Superstition (Arb.) 347 The Causes of Superstition are:..Excesse of Outward and Pharisaicall Holinesse. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xx. 371 The pharisaical self-sufficiency of the modern infidel. 1835J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1837) I. xi. 161 There are vast multitudes of Pharisaical hypocrites among baptized Christians.
Hence Phariˈsaically adv.; Phariˈsaicalness.
1599Broughton's Let. vii. 21 So farre houen with surquedrie and self-loue,..Pharisaically..to annihilate all others. 1679T. Puller Moder. Ch. Eng. xvii. 489 Their many kinds of Superstitions, and Pharisaicalness. 1884Bookseller 6 Nov. 1177/2 He, pharisaically, in the interests of morality, gets the thief, whom he taught, committed to prison. |