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Webster 1913 Edition


Scripture

Scrip′ture

(?; 135)
,
Noun.
[L.
scriptura
, fr.
scribere
,
scriptum
, to write: cf. OF.
escripture
,
escriture
, F.
écriture
. See
Scribe
.]
1.
Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.
I have put it in
scripture
and in remembrance.
Chaucer.
Then the Lord of Manny read the
scripture
on the tomb, the which was in Latin.
Ld. Berners.
2.
The books of the Old and the New Testament, or of either of them; the Bible; – used by way of eminence or distinction, and chiefly in the plural.
There is not any action a man ought to do, or to forbear, but the
Scripture
will give him a clear precept or prohibition for it.
South.
Compared with the knowledge which the
Scriptures
contain, every other subject of human inquiry is vanity.
Buckminster.
3.
A passage from the Bible; a text.
The devil can cite
Scripture
for his purpose.
Shakespeare
Hanging by the twined thread of one doubtful
Scripture
.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Scripture

SCRIP'TURE

,
Noun.
[L. scriptura, from scribo, to write.]
1.
In its primary sense, a writing; any thing written.
2.
Appropriately, and by way of distinction, the books of the Old and New Testament; the Bible. The word is used either in the singular or plural number, to denote the sacred writings or divine oracles, called sacred or holy, as proceeding from God and containing sacred doctrines and precepts.
There is not any action that a man ought to do or forbear, but the Scripture will give him a clear precept or prohibition for it.
Compared with the knowledge which the Scriptures contain, every other subject of human inquiry is vanity and emptiness.

Definition 2024


Scripture

Scripture

See also: scripture

English

Proper noun

Scripture

  1. the Aqdas
  2. the Hebrew Tanakh
  3. the Old and New Testaments of the Christian Bible.
  4. the Adi Granth
  5. the Avesta
  6. the Book of Shadows
  7. the Raelian Sensual Meditation
  8. the Moslem Koran
  9. the Poetic Edda
  10. The Tripitaka
  11. The Veda

Noun

Scripture (uncountable)

  1. the religious text of a given religion

Translations

scripture

scripture

See also: Scripture

English

Noun

scripture (plural scriptures)

  1. A sacred writing or holy book.
    The primary scripture in Zoroastrianism is the Avesta.
    • 2001, Leander Keck, Who is Jesus? (ISBN 0567088332), page 143:
      It would be quite unwise to deem the whole historical enterprise as wrong-headed and to think that one can revert to the gospels' way of reading scripture, []
  2. (by extension) An authoritative statement.

Hyponyms

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Latin

Participle

scrīptūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of scrīptūrus