Associations to the word «Sanhedrin»

Wiktionary

SANHEDRIN, noun. (historical) An assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every major city in Israel.
SANHEDRIN, noun. (historical) The assembly of seventy-one judges sitting in Jerusalem.

Dictionary definition

SANHEDRIN, noun. The supreme judicial and ecclesiastical council of ancient Jerusalem.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope