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Webster 1913 Edition

Essene

Es-sene′

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Noun.
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pl.
Essenes
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[Gr. [GREEK], lit., physicians, because they practiced medicine, fr. Chald
āsayā
to heal, cf. Heb.
asā
.]
One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.

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