Es-sēne', n.

n. [Gr. ’Εσσηνοί and ’Εσσαῖοι, literally physicians, because they practiced medicine, from Chald. āsayā, from Heb. asā, to heal; according to the Talmud their name is chasīdīm, i. e., the pious.] (Jewish Hist.) One of a sect remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.