[f. TALMUD + -IST.] a. One of the authors of the Talmud.
b. One who accepts or believes in the authority of the Talmud. c. One learned in the Talmud; a Talmudic scholar.
1569. J. Sanford, trans. Agrippa’s Van. Artes, 6 b. There is a great contention of the Hebrewe tounge and Carracter, betwene the Thalmudistes.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), II. 10. The Jews at this day are divided to three sects. The first, which is the greatest, are call’d the Talmudists, in regard that, besides the holy scriptures, they embrace the Talmud.
1742. Biscoe, On Acts (1829), 86. The Talmudists frequently speak of the transmigration of the souls of good men.
1882. American, III. 186. Dr. Joseph Barclay, Bishop of Jerusalem, an eminent Talmudist.
1882. Century Mag., XXIV. 49. All [orthodox] Jews with whom Americans and Europeans are acquainted are Talmudists.
Hence Talmudistic, Talmudistical adjs. = TALMUDICAL. So Talmudize v. trans., to make Talmudic; to allegorize or mix with fable.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 76. With Th’almudisticall dreames.
1642. Cudworth, Disc. Lord’s Supper, 30. Besides these Talmudisticke Jewes, there is another Sect … that reject all Talmudicall Traditions.
1781. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, lx. (1840), III. 386. The name Ariel came from the Talmudistic mysteries.
1839. R. Philip, Life W. Milne, ix. (1840), 246. There are facts in his itinerary although Talmudized.
1860. W. W. Webb, in Med. Times, 1 Dec., 537/1. Talmudistical commentators on clinical medicine, whose patients seem to be immortal.
