Mitnagged
[English, Ashkenazic Hebrew mis-nah-gid; Sephardic Hebrew meet-nah-ged] /English, Ashkenazic Hebrew mɪsˈnɑ gɪd; Sephardic Hebrew mit nɑˈgɛd/
noun, plural Mitnaggedim
[English, Ashkenazic Hebrew mis-nahg-dim; Sephardic Hebrew meet-nahg-deem] /English, Ashkenazic Hebrew mɪsˈnɑg dɪm; Sephardic Hebrew mit nɑgˈdim/ (Show IPA). Judaism.
1.
a member of an Orthodox Jewish movement in central or eastern Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries that advocated an intellectual, legalistic approach to Judaism and opposed the emotional, mystical approach of the Hasidim.
Compare (def 1).
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