Karait

karait English Etymology 1 Noun en Karaite adherent of Karaism. en Memoirs of the life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter 274 Elizabeth Carter 1808 When the Jewish Church was settled in Judea, after the Babylonian captivity, there were two sorts of men among the members of it; the one was called Zaddikim, or the Righteous, who contented themselves with what was written in the law of Moses only. From these were derived the sects of the Samaritans, Sadducees, and Karaits. Notes on the Bible, &c. en Considerations on the state of the law regarding Marriages with a Deceased Wife's Sister 1840 H. R. Reynolds This was the interpretation put upon the text, by the Talmudical Rabbies and the Scribes, which last are stated by Chief Justice Vaughan to have been of more authority in the Hebrew Commonwealth than the Karait Rabbies, who adopted a different interpretation; en An Inquiry Concerning the Lawfulness of Marriage Between Parties Previously Related by Consanguinity Or Affinity William Marshall 1843 If the virtue of the Karaits lay in something else than their marriage laws, it is nothing to the purpose on this question; and if in those laws, it must be granted that none except the Roman Catholics ever surpassed their virtue or came nigh to it. Etymology 2 Noun en Kerait member of a particular Turco-Mongol tribal confederation. en A General History of the Turks, Moguls, and Tatars, Vulgarly Called Tartars 1729 However it does not appear that the Turks were ever Masters of more than one half of Grand Tatary; for in the Time of Cavar Chan of Turkestan, mentioned often in the foregoing History, who extended his Dominion over Little Bucharia, or Cashgar, we find several Nations in the East, as those of the Mogulls, Naimans, Karaïts, &c. who had their particular Chans, among which that of the Karaïts was the most powerful; en A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific James Bell Geographers and historians have been sadly puzzled where to find its site; and some, as Malte Brun, have supposed it to have been merely a summer abode of the Karait and Mongolian Khans, like that of Zheholl, where the emperor or khan long received the British embassy. 1831 en The history of Káshgharia 25 1875 His name was Aong Khan, and his people the Karait and Makrit, who were also Christians, though their Lord became an idolater. Dr. H. W. Bellew Anagrams en aaikrt Kitara