1. A Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century

Type of: religious order, religious sect, sect

Encyclopedia: Karaites

• fall by the wayside
• fall cankerworm
• fall dandelion
• fall down
• fall equinox
• fall flat
• fall for
• fall from grace
• fall guy
• fall in
• fall in line
• fall in love
• fall into
• fall into place
• Fall of Man
• fall open
• fall over
• fall over backwards
• fall short
• fall short of
• fall through
• fall to pieces
• fall under
• fall upon
• fall webworm