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noun

Galilean n.

A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans.

(Jewish Hist.) One of the party among the Jews, who opposed the payment of tribute to the Romans; called also Gaulonite.

A Christian in general; used as a term of reproach by Muslims and Pagans.

adjective

Galilean adj. Of or pertaining to Galileo; as, the Galilean telescope. See Telescope.

Galilean adj. Of or relating to Galilee.

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Etymology of 'Galilean'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Galilean" Quotes from Famous Books

... together at so late an hour for the transaction of business. It must be only too well known to you what we have with shame been compelled to see today with our own eyes. You have seen the triumphal progress of the Galilean through the Holy City. You have heard the Hosannas of the befooled populace. You have perceived how this ambitious man arrogates to himself the office of the high priest. What now lacks for the destruction of all civil and ecclesiastical order? ...

— King of the Jews - A story of Christ's last days on Earth • William T. Stead

... about the cradle of Jesus of Nazareth, none appeals more directly to the highest poetic feeling than that given by one of the evangelists, in which a star, rising in the east, conducted the wise men to the manger where the Galilean peasant-child—the Hope of Mankind, the Light of the World—was lying in ...

— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

... indwelling Spirit, and His all-sufficient example, and seek to ascertain His will in outward Providences, we shall not be left to waste our strength in blunders, nor shall our labour be in vain. In the morning light we shall see Him standing serene on the steadfast shore. The 'Pilot of the Galilean lake' will guide our frail boat through the wild surf that marks the breaking of the sea of life on the shore of eternity; and when the sun rises over the Eastern hills we shall land on the solid beach, bringing our 'few small fishes' with us, which He will accept. And there we shall rest, ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI • Alexander Maclaren

... snatches a mouthful from some book in passing. For these walks were his best study; when thinking of his people in their goodness and simplicity, and touched by nature at her gentlest, he was freed from many vain ideas of the schools and from artificial learning, and heard the Galilean speak as He used to do among the fields of corn. He came on people going in the same direction, but they only saluted, refraining even from the weather, since the minister's thoughts must not be disturbed, and ...

— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren

... fishermen whom Jesus called to be a disciple. Years ago this view was easily entertained, but there now exists too much refractory evidence against assigning this Greek Gospel to an Aramaic-speaking Galilean. That an untutored fisherman could have written so elaborate and so highly philosophical an account of Jesus has always presented a thorny problem. And so to most scholars John's authorship of the ...

— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks

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