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Sanhedrin   /sˌænhˈidrɪn/   Listen
Sanhedrin

noun
1.
The supreme judicial and ecclesiastical council of ancient Jerusalem.






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... Church-State and only recognized a certain prerogative in the Church to which the majority of Frenchmen belonged (the Concordat of 1802). After summoning an assembly of Jewish Notables for a preliminary inquiry, in 1806, a more formal Sanhedrin was summoned in the following year, to which twelve test questions were submitted,—among them, whether the French Jews could regard France as their Fatherland and Frenchmen as their brothers, and the laws of the State as binding upon ...
— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various



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