| 单词 |
Genist |
| 释义 |
Genist|ˈdʒiːnɪst| [ad. late L. Genistæ n. pl., f. L. gen- to be born.] One of a sect of ancient Jews who took no foreign wives during the Babylonian captivity, and who therefore claim to be pure-blooded descendants of Abraham. So ˈGenite.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage ii. viii. 128 He there nameth..diuers other sects if they may beare that name: as the Genites or Genists, which stood vpon their stocke and kindred. 1882F. W. Farrar Early Chr. II. 342 Even down to the fifth century there continued to be..‘Genists’, or Jews by race. |

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