abrahamicalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

Abrahamical (comparative more Abrahamical, superlative most Abrahamical)

1. Like or pertaining to Abraham.
   • 1840, William Cave, Lives of the most eminent fathers of the church that flourished in the first four centuries, page 40:

     Witness the yesterday's sacrifice of that Abrahamical old man, who, being newly returned from banishment, ye knocked on the head at noon-day in the middle of the street, whose murderers yet, at our intercession, were spared and pardoned.

   • 1841, John Lauris Blake and Jehoshaphat Aspin, A view of the world: as exhibited in the manners, costumes, & characteristics of all nations, page 270:

     They indeed practise circumcision, on which account, they have been supposed to be descended from the Abrahamical stock ; but they have lost all tradition of its origin, and assign custom only as the reason of the operation.

派生語

• Abrahamically