Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PHAR'I-SEE
PHAR-I-SE'ANPHAR-MA-CEU'TIC, or PHAR-MA-CEU'TIC-AL
PHAR'I-SEE, n. [Heb. פרס, to separate.]
One of a sect among the Jews, whose religion consisted in a strict observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretended holiness led them to separate themselves as a sect, considering themselves us more righteous than other Jews.
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