Haggadah

(plur. haggadoth). The free rabbinical interpretation of Scripture. (Hebrew, hagged, to relate.) (See Farrar: Life of Christ, vol. ii. chap. lviii. p. 333.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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