Biblical
['bɪblɪk(ə)l] or ['bɪblɪkl]
Definition
(adj.) of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible; 'biblical names'; 'biblical Hebrew' .
(adj.) in keeping with the nature of the Bible or its times or people; 'biblical styles in writing'; 'a beard of biblical proportions'; 'biblical costumes' .
Editor: Moll--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.
Editor: Sweeney
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Scriptural.
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Examples
- Lake Huleh is the Biblical Waters of Merom. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Everything I see in him corresponds to his pamphlet on Biblical Cosmology. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A good life is not measured by any biblical span. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Yes: I was granted an interview with my Christian hero--an interview not very heroic, or sentimental, or biblical, but lively enough in its way. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The term Shibboleth has come to mean a countersign or password of a secret society since the Biblical days, when the Ephraimites, who had been routed by Jephthah, tried to pass the Jordan. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He commenced to recite Biblical names with immense rapidity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is biblical. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My biblical knowledge is a trifle rusty, I fear, but you will find the story in the first or second of Samuel. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is a matter of record that chattel slavery in this country was deduced from Biblical injunction, that the universities furnished brains for its defense. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She chose the Biblical words What hath God wrought? Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- We have had scientists like that, men who insisted that research must confirm the Biblical theory of creation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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