Definition of "Israelitish"

This Univocation of Tartar Cities with those of Israel, concurring with the former Reason from the Place and Country, whither they were sometime transplanted by the Assyrians', doth plainly shew that the Israelitish People have been there, and given the Names unto these Cities […]

1749-1750, William Whiston, Memoirs

The Israelitish state as it then existed seemed to them a sacred thing, because it was in their thought the kingdom of God already formed and destined to attain to a perfect purity of faith and morals, and to become the spiritual leader of the nations of the world.

1913, Edward Chauncey Baldwin, “The Prophets”, in Our Modern Debt to Israel (non-fiction), Boston: Sherman, French & Company, page 40