Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Asmonean \As`mo*ne"an\, a.
   Of or pertaining to the patriotic Jewish family to which the
   Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty.
   [Written also {Asmon[ae]an}.]

Asmonean \As`mo*ne"an\, n.
   One of the Asmonean family. The Asmoneans were leaders and
   rulers of the Jews from 168 to 35 b. c.