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maccabean
plural noun(Mac-ca-bees)
a priestly family leading a Jewish revolt begun in 168 b.c. against Hellenism and Syrian rule and reigning over Palestine from 142 b.c. to 63 b.c.
maccabean
plural noun(Mac-ca-bees)
either of two narrative and historical books included in the Roman Catholic canon of the Old Testament and in the Protestant Apocrypha

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