Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- After the manner of the Levites or of the Levitical law.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb After the manner of the Levites; in accordance with the levitical law.
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- adverb After the manner of the
Levites ; in accordance withlevitical law .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It found its excuse for being in the requirement that worshippers offer to the priests for sacrifice animals levitically clean and acceptable, and that gifts for the temple treasury be made in no coin other than the sacred "shekel of the sanctuary."
The Life of Jesus of Nazareth Rush Rhees
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As was commonly thought, or perhaps being levitically reckoned as his son.
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Christians are not bound to circumcise, to abstain from levitically unclean food and so on.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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It found its excuse for being in the requirement that worshippers offer to the priests for sacrifice animals levitically clean and acceptable, and that gifts for the temple treasury be made in no coin other than the sacred “shekel of the sanctuary.”
The Life of Jesus of Nazareth Rhees, Rush, 1860-1939 1902
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