单词 | noachide |
释义 | Noachiden.adj. A. n. In plural. The descendants of Noah; any of the ancient peoples of the Middle East notionally descended from Noah, (occasionally) only those other than the Jews (cf. nation n.1 2a); humankind as a whole. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Biblical personages > Old Testament > [noun] MessiahOE Maccabeea1425 Septuagint1564 Japhethite1598 Sethite1659 Noachides1703 Japhetian1803 Maccabeana1831 1703 Athenian Oracle II. 248/2 The sense of his [sc. God's] Justice, drove all Mankind to enquire for a Mediator.., from some universal Tradition of the Noachidæ, founded at first on Revelation. 1723 R. Bundy tr. B. Lamy Apparatus Biblicus i. xiii. 219 These they call the law of the Noachides; and as all men are Noachides, that is, the descendants of Noah, they pretend that these seven commandments contain the whole law of nature. 1777 H. St. John Wks. V. 71 They [sc. the Jews] stood distinguished from the rest of the Noachidæ, whom they called the Nations. 1820 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1992) III. 356 To prefer the 3 Noachidæ to his [sc. Kant's] 4 Aboriginal Digenerations. 1856 J. Hadley Ess. Philol. & Crit. (1873) i. 10 In the tenth chapter of the book of Genesis, in the list of Noachids. 1885 Catholic World Jan. 446 We have the undoubted historical fact of the Noachian Deluge which made a new beginning for the Noachides at least, if not for the human species universally. 1953 Mod. Lang. Notes 68 244 Allen, no doubt delighted by the classical sound of ‘Noachides’.., uses it too narrowly to mean Sem, Ham, and Japhet; the word was commonly used to mean mankind. 1987 Eng. Hist. Rev. 102 643 Harrison believed that the Antiquitates demonstrated the peopling of the British Isles by the Samotheans, giant descendents [sic] of the Noachidae. 2003 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (Nexis) 3 May d11 The Talmud.., basing itself on biblical verses, teaches that all human beings—Noachides, as they are traditionally labeled—were given seven commandments. B. adj. = Noachian adj.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > of the time of the flood or Noah Noachical1668 Noachian1678 Noetic1695 Noachic1722 Noachide1736 Noahic1842 1736 Universal Hist. I. i. vii. 664 Such..remained still uncircumcised, or bound themselves..only to the observation of the Noachid law. 1764 W. Guthrie et al. Gen. Hist. World I. iv. ii. 267 Circumcision not being required of the former [sc. proselytes of the gate], who were only bound to..observe the Noachid law or precepts of Noah. 1877 G. Rawlinson Origin Nations ii. i. 173 The author of the Noachide genealogy. 1945 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 18 285 In the Rabbinic period, this great step was taken with the elaboration of the conception of the Noachide Laws. 1967 A. Carmel in P. Longworth Confrontations with Judaism 108 Some authorities assumed a compromise attitude, whereby the semi-converts would obey the seven Noachide laws, and observe the Sabbath. 1980 D. Goldstein Jewish Folklore & Legend 82 The prohibition of eating the flesh of a living animal (one of the Noachid laws). 2001 Church Times 23 Mar. 19/1 Jewish halakhah, based on the Torah's rules for resident aliens, and later developed by second century rabbis into the ‘Noachide Commandments’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1703 |
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