Kar|a|ite

Kar|a|ite
Kar|a|ite «KAIR uh yt», noun.
a member of a Jewish sect that originated in Persia in the 700's A.D. and rejected the rabbinical tradition and Talmudic authority, basing its tenets on a literal interpretation of the Scriptures.
[< Hebrew qāīm scripturalists (< qārā to read) + English -ite1]

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