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from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a synedrium.
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The respect in which the synedrial president was held rapidly increased; like Christian patriarchs under Mahometan rule, he was also recognised by the imperial government as the municipal head of the Jews of Palestine, and bore the secular title of the old high priests (nasi, ethnarch, patriarch).
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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