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Mac`ca*be"an (?), a. Of or
pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the Maccabees; as, the
Maccabean princes; Maccabean times.

Mac"ca*bees (?), n. pl.
1. The name given in later times to the
Asmonæans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious
revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 B. C., which led
to a period of freedom for Israel. Schaff-Herzog.

2. The name of two ancient historical books,
which give accounts of Jewish affairs in or about the time of the
Maccabean princes, and which are received as canonical books in the
Roman Catholic Church, but are included in the Apocrypha by
Protestants. Also applied to three books, two of which are found in
some MSS. of the Septuagint.

{ Mac"ca*boy (?), Mac"co*boy (?), }
n. [From a district in the Island of Martinique
where it is made: cf. F. macouba.] A kind of
snuff.

Mac"co (?), n. A gambling game in
vogue in the eighteenth century.


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