1535 1 Macc. vii. B First, ye Assideans requyred peace of them, sayenge: Alcimus ye prest is come of the sede of Aaron, how can he disceaue vs?
1602 L. Lloyd iii. xii. 334 Bacchides and Alcinus, Gouernors vnder the most cruell king Demetrius, slue threescore Assideans, that came to entreat Antiochus for peace, against the lawe of armes.
1613 S. Purchas ii. viii. 118 The Hasidæans added further (of their owne free-will) to the Sanctuarie, Walles, and Porches, neuer (almost) going from the Temple.
1683 9 There arose among these Assideans certain Dogmatists, persons that subdivided themselves under a zealous persuasion for the necessity of their observations.
1739 IV. ii. xi. 55 Among those who resorted to, and did not a little strengthen the little flying army of Mattathias, were the Assideans, or rather Hassideans, a brave and strenuous sect, formed among the Jews soon after their return from the captivity.
1828 C. E. Stowe tr. J. Jahn x. 108/2 The Assideans..who in their religious observances even exceeded the demands of the law.
1873 A. D. Thomson iv. 120 The principal occupation of the Assideans was the study of the law, and the transmission of oral tradition to posterity.
1920 F. J. Foakes Jackson & K. Lake I. i. 88 This would tend to confirm the view that the Asidaeans were a sect occupied in religion and indifferent to worldly affairs.
1999 L. Fanthorpe & P. Fanthorpe 202 It was only after Antiochus had placed the pagan statues and altars in the temple at Jerusalem, that the Hasideans were roused to battle fury.