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essene |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Essene \Es*sene"\, n.; pl {Essenes}. [Gr. ?, lit., physicians, because they practiced medicine, fr Chald [=a]say[=a] to heal, cf Heb. as[=a].] One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.
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