Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pharisee

Pharisee (far"i*sē) , noun

[Latin Pharisaeus, Greek Farisai^os, from Hebrew pārash to separate.]

One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews.