Definition of Responsum

1. a written rabbinic decision [n -SA]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Responsum

responsible for(p)
responsible trading
responsibleness
responsibly
responsion
responsions
responsitivity
responsive
responsively
responsiveness
responsivity
responsorial
responsorials
responsories
responsory
responsum (current term)
respool
respooled
respooling
respools
respot
respots
respotted
respotting
resprang
respray
resprayed
respraying
resprayings
resprays

Literary usage of Responsum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geonica by Louis Ginzberg (1909)
"The twentieth responsum is found not only in s"n, Ie, but also in Eshkol, II, 96. In the latter it is quoted anonymously, and Müller, Mafteah, ai8 (t'sp), ..."

2. Sancti Aurelii Augustini Episcopi De Civitate Dei Libri XXII. by Augustinus, (1877)
"num datum est etiam tale responsum, ut diceretur: Abraham erit in magnam gentem et multam, ... responsum ..."

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