anti-Judaic

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ Judaic.

Adjective

anti-Judaic (comparative more anti-Judaic, superlative most anti-Judaic)

  1. Of or pertaining to anti-Judaism; opposing the Jews. [18th c.]
    • 1754 April 25, Mr. Town, The Connoisseur‎[1], volume I, number XIII, London, page 76:
      The table was covered from one end to the other with hams, legs of pork, ſpare-ribs, griſkins, haſlets, feet and ears, brawn, and the like : in the middle there ſmoaked a large barbicued hog, which was ſoon devour’d to the bone ; ſo deſirous was every one to prove his Chriſtianity by the quantity he could ſwallow of that Anti-Judaic food.
    • 2005, Robert J. Hanyok, chapter 1, in Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939–1945‎[2], second edition, Center for Cryptologic History; National Security Agency, page 11:
      In early Medieval Europe there was popular hostility against Jews, but it was unsystematic and was charged with a clearly religious tone — more anti-Judaic than anti-Semitic.
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