Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to writing; written.
- adjective Of, relating to, based on, or contained in the Scriptures.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to writing; written.
- Pertaining to, contained in, or in accordance with the Scriptures: as, a scriptural phrase; scriptural doctrine.
- = Syn.2. Biblical, Scriptural. Biblical relates to the Bible as a book to be known or studied: as, a Biblical scholar; Biblical exegesis or criticism. Scriptural relates to the Bible as a book containing doctrine: as, the idea is not scriptural; it also means simply contained in the text of the Bible: as, a scriptural phrase. We speak of a Bible character, a Bible hero.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Contained in the Scriptures; according to the Scriptures, or sacred oracles; biblical.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
scripture .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible
- adjective written or relating to writing
Etymologies
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Examples
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But this much, notwithstanding, he would be perfectly qualified to say: -- However great your skill as linguists, your reading of what you term the scriptural geography or scriptural astronomy must of necessity be a false reading, seeing that it commits
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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Such of his sermons as are still extant are prosy, long-winded, dogmatic absurdities, overloaded with periphrastic illustrations in scriptural language.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888
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The mysterie of rhetorique unvail'd, wherein above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English, together with lively definitions and variety of Latin English scriptural examples, pertinent to each of them apart.
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Leaders within the Catholic Church were outraged by his assertions, referring to the scriptural claims of the earth's position within the universe.
Roy Speckhardt: Rapture Fever Roy Speckhardt 2011
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Leaders within the Catholic Church were outraged by his assertions, referring to the scriptural claims of the earth's position within the universe.
Roy Speckhardt: Rapture Fever Roy Speckhardt 2011
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Leaders within the Catholic Church were outraged by his assertions, referring to the scriptural claims of the earth's position within the universe.
Roy Speckhardt: Rapture Fever Roy Speckhardt 2011
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Even as a heretical product of the Jesuits, I recall the scriptural caution to "Judge not, lest ye be judged."
MAIL CALL 2007
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Its interpretable level is what they indicate that helps us achieve the same ourselves, namely their scriptural pronouncements and realizations.
The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� 1 The Buddhist Framework 1997
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Seward failed to anticipate his ambition, he recalled the scriptural injunction, "Ask, and it shall be given you."
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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Of this it would be hard to find a better working model than what may be called scriptural English.
The New Jerusalem 1905
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