Definition of "rabbinical" in English

adjective

1. Of or relating to rabbis, their writings, or their work.

   • 1581, Robert Parsons, A Brief Censure vppon Two Bookes Written in Answere to M. Edmonde Campions Offer of Disputation, Doway: John Lyon, “Towching the Societie,” section heading, Three kyndes of Rabbinical expositions of the Law.
   • 1766, Elizabeth Griffith, The Double Mistake, London: J. Almon et al., Act I, Scene 3, Her father was a very learned divine, and who can tell but she may understand the rabbinical text?