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Maccabees \Mac"ca*bees\, n. pl.
1. The name given in later times to the Asmon[ae]ans, a
family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt
in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 b. c., which led to
a period of freedom for Israel. --Schaff-Herzog.

2. The name of two ancient historical books, which give
accounts of Jewish affairs in or about the time of the
Maccabean princes, and which are received as canonical
books in the Roman Catholic Church, but are included in
the Apocrypha by Protestants. Also applied to three books,
two of which are found in some MSS. of the Septuagint.