maggid

[ Ashkenazic Hebrew, English mah-gid; Sephardic Hebrew mah-geed ]

noun

, Judaism.

, plural mag·gi·dim [mah-, gee, -dim, mah-gee-, deem], mag·gids.

1. (especially in Poland and Russia) a wandering Jewish preacher whose sermons contained religious and moral instruction and words of comfort and hope.

Word History and Origins

Origin of maggid¹

First recorded in 1890–95, maggid is from the Hebrew word maggīdh literally, narrator, messenger

Example Sentences

The schoolmaster wrote out the envelope, as usual, but the Maggid did not post the letter.

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Poor Caminski fell into it—you remember the red-haired weaver who sold his looms to the Maggid's brother-in-law.

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After his wife died—vainly calling for her Isaac—the old Maggid was left heart-broken.

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How the Maggid would have been stricken to the heart to know that Isaac now heard these legends with inverted sympathies!

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He went straight to his old synagogue, where he knew a Hesped or funeral service on a famous Maggid (preacher) was to be held.

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