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rabbinate|ˈræbɪnət|
[f. prec. + -ate: cf. F. rabbinat.]
a. The office or dignity of a rabbi.
b. The period during which some one is a rabbi.
c. collect. Rabbis as a body or class.
1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iv. ii. §8. 146 He..seemed inclinable to the Jewish Rule about the Rabbinate. 1881Encycl. Brit. XIII. 681 Gradually the Talmud..was abandoned almost entirely to candidates for the rabbinate. 1890Jewish Intelligence Mar. 35 During the Rabbinate of Dr. Adler. 1892Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. 27 The Rabbinate was invited to address the philanthropists. |