Pharisaicaladj.

1527 W. Roye tr. W. Capito Lytle Treat. for Christen Men sig. e2^v Lest we begynne a newe tyranny Pharisaicall hipocrysy Or discorde vnder the coloure of excommunicacion.

1531 W. Tyndale Expos. 1 John (1537) 37 Our pharisaycall doctours haue no doctrine to knowe when a man is in the state of grace.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 98 The Causes of Superstition are:..Excesse of Outward and Pharisaicall Holinesse.

1680 R. L'Estrange Citt & Bumpkin 29 The Pharisaical Distinguishing of your selves from the Profane.

1708 E. Ward London Terræ-filius No. 6. 4 That Pharisaical Pretender to more Holiness than his Neighbours.

1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xx. 412 The pharisaical self-sufficiency of the modern infidel.

1835 S. J. B. Hale Traits of Amer. Life 53 Thus Mr. Redfield and his wife persuaded themselves that, while they kept the Sabbath day with pharisaical strictness, the other six days were their own.

1835 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (1837) I. xi. 161 There are vast multitudes of Pharisaical hypocrites among baptized Christians.

1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 451/2 This eloquent divine..chose the records of the trotting turf for one of his most powerful illustrations,..without any Pharasaical slur at the noble sport.

1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 50/3 A village has a way of lifting a pharisaical eyebrow at a sinner, real or fancied, which defies all analysis.

1963 D. M. Matheson tr. F. Schuon Understanding Islam ii. 67 This situation of the Moslem appears to be a superficial formalism or even pharasaical.

1978 J. Senior Death Christian Culture vii. 112 And I am amused when not frightened at the pharisaical self-righteousness of those who say there is no crime among us.

1993 Chicago Tribune 4 Jan. a11/1 It is surely naive, and pharisaical, to focus now on a few alleged deceivers out of a culture whose purpose was to mislead in the national interest.

1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe ii. sig. h iiiij^v[i iiij^v] Full of conspiracy With the sectes pharisaicall.

1537 tr. Fyften Orders Sectes or Supersticions of Jewes iiii, in Original & Sprynge all Sectes sig. G2 The Pharisaicall secte was separate from the commune lyuynge.

?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iv. sig. Ev^v As Cayphas ones sayd, in counsell pharysaycall.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 124 The want of which office Christ obiected to another of his Pharisaicall hostes.

1766 J. Fleetwood Life Jesus Christ xiii. 83/1 The miraculous power of our blessed Lord both in performing the most astonishing acts, and confuting the most learned of the Pharisaical tribe.

1831 E. Burton Lect. Eccl. Hist. i. viii. 251 The Pharisaical part of the council declared him to be innocent.

2004 Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 12 Mar. (Metro ed.) Jesus does affirm the teaching of the Pharisees and instructs his disciples to follow Pharisaical teachings.

1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered vii. 21 So farre houen with surquedrie and selfe-loue,..Pharisaically..to annihilate all others.

1884 Bookseller 6 Nov. 1177/2 He, pharisaically, in the interests of morality, gets the thief, whom he taught, committed to prison.

1976 Church Times 30 July 11/2 Many of my..correspondents pay a well-deserved tribute to the courage of the Church Times for publishing a heartfelt protest which all too many other periodicals would find it pharisaically strategical to suppress.

1990 R. S. Thomas Counterpoint 47 It waits for us outside, knowing that when we emerge it is into the noise of its hand beating on the breast's iron as Pharisaically as ourselves.

1679 T. Puller Moderation Church of Eng. xvii. 489 Their many kinds of Superstitions, and Pharisaicalness.

1928 C. S. Churchill Let. 12 Nov. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) xiii. 331 I must put pen to paper to ask you what you think of Coolidge's Armistice Speech. Its coldness, smugness, self-sufficiency, boastfulness, Pharisaicalness & cant make me boil & freeze alternately.