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levitical

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What does levitical mean?

adjective

  1. Alternative form of Levitic (“of or pertaining to the Levites”).
  2. priestly
  3. Relating to the book of Leviticus.

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But, above all, the taking fish in spawning-time may be said to be against nature: it is like taking the dam on the nest when she hatches her young, a sin so against nature, that Almighty God hath in the Levitical law made a law against it.
Izaak WaltonThe Compleat AnglerProject Gutenberg ebook #683