Jew Baiter - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: jew baiterJew baiter
someone who hates and would persecute Jews an anti Semite...
Jews
Jews. Several Statutes were passed in the reign of Queen Victoria respecting the Jews. See 8 & 9 Vict. c. 52, giving them relief as to municipal offices; 10 & 11 Vict. c. 58, and 19 & 20 Vict. c. 119, ss. 21, 22 as to their marriages; 21 & 22 Vict. c. 48, s. 5, amended by 23 & 24 Vict. c. 63, as to their making declara-tions as a qualification for office; and the Jews Relief Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 49), empowering either house of Parliament by resolution to allow them to omit the words 'upon the true faith of a Christian' from the form of oath then required to be taken by members of Parliament. The Promissory Oaths Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 72), has since prescribed a form of oath containing no reference to the faith of a Christian, and the Promissory Oaths Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 48), repeals 21 & 22 Vict. c. 48, and the Jews Relief Act, 1858, except s. 4, which provides that the official patronage of a professing Jew shall devolve on the Archbishop of Canterbury. By s. 3 of...
Jews harp
An instrument of music which when placed between the teeth gives by means of a bent metal tongue struck by the finger a sound which is modulated by the breath called also Jews trump...
Sephardim
Jews who are descendants of the former Jews of Spain and Portugal They are as a rule darker than the northern Jews and have more delicate features...
Baiter
One who baits a tormentor...
Cerinthian
One of an ancient religious sect so called from Cerinthus a Jew who attempted to unite the doctrines of Christ with the opinions of the Jews and Gnostics...
Hellenist
One who affiliates with Greeks or imitates Greek manners esp a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue as did the Jews of Asia Minor Greece Syria and Egypt distinguished from the Hebraists or native Jews Acts vi 1...
Jehovah
A Scripture name of the Supreme Being by which he was revealed to the Jews as their covenant God or Sovereign of the theocracy the ldquoineffable namerdquo of the Supreme Being which was not pronounced by the Jews...
Jewish
Of or pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews characteristic of or resembling the Jews or their customs Israelitish...
Jewry
Judea also a district inhabited by Jews a Jews quarter...
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