HASID

also Chasid or Chassid noun (plural ~im; also Chasidim or Chassidim) Etymology: Hebrew ḥāsīdh pious Date: 1812 a member of a Jewish sect of the second century B.C. opposed to Hellenism and devoted to the strict observance of the ritual law, a member of a Jewish mystical sect founded in Poland about 1750 in opposition to rationalism and ritual laxity, ~ic also Hassidic or Chasidic or Chassidic adjective