Definition of Pharisean. Meaning of Pharisean. Synonyms of Pharisean

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Definition of Pharisean

Pharisean
Pharisean Phar`i*se"an, a. [L. Pharisaeus, Gr. Farisai^os.] Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic. [Obs.] ``Pharisean disciples.' --Milton.

Meaning of Pharisean from wikipedia

- Jesus at the house of the Pharisean, by Tintoretto, Escorial...
- deliberate compilation and justification of the unwritten tradition by the Pharisean party, perhaps unsystematic and on a small scale in the earlier stages...
- and philosophies which exhaust themselves in a debauchery of honest or pharisean artifice, with perfect unawareness of being without substance, one will...