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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century; 



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Karaites
    n 1: a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as
         the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the
         authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the
         sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century