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scripture
(mass) | Scripture
- Biblia, Písmo sväté |
scripture
(encz) | scripture,bible n: Zdeněk Brož |
scripture
(encz) | scripture,posvátná kniha n: Zdeněk Brož |
Scripture
(gcide) | Scripture \Scrip"ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. scriptura, fr. scribere,
scriptum, to write: cf. OF. escripture, escriture, F.
['e]criture. See Scribe.]
1. Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.
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I have put it in scripture and in remembrance.
--Chaucer.
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Then the Lord of Manny read the scripture on the
tomb, the which was in Latin. --Ld. Berners.
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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.
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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.
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Compared with the knowledge which the Scriptures
contain, every other subject of human inquiry is
vanity. --Buckminster.
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3. A passage from the Bible; a text.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
--Shak.
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Hanging by the twined thread of one doubtful
Scripture. --Milton.
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scripture
(wn) | Scripture
n 1: the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to
carry the Word to the heathen" [syn: Bible, {Christian
Bible}, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ,
Scripture, Word of God, Word]
2: any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group
[syn: scripture, sacred scripture] |
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scripture
(mass) | Scripture
- Biblia, Písmo sväté |
scriptures
(mass) | scriptures
- biblia |
holy scripture
(encz) | Holy Scripture, |
holy scriptures
(encz) | Holy Scriptures, |
sacred scripture
(encz) | sacred scripture, n: |
scripture
(encz) | scripture,bible n: Zdeněk Brožscripture,posvátná kniha n: Zdeněk Brož |
scriptures
(encz) | scriptures,bible n: Zdeněk Brožscriptures,posvátné knihy Zdeněk Brož |
Canonical Scriptures
(gcide) | canonic \ca*non"ic\ (k[.a]*n[o^]n"[i^]k), canonical
\ca*non"ic*al\ (k[.a]*n[o^]n"[i^]*kal), a. [L. canonicus, LL.
canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See canon.]
Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to,
a canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience."
--Hallam.
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2. Appearing in a Biblical canon; as, a canonical book of the
Christian New Testament.
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3. Accepted as authoritative; recognized.
[PJC]
4. (Math.) In its standard form, usually also the simplest
form; -- of an equation or coordinate.
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5. (Linguistics) Reduced to the simplest and most significant
form possible without loss of generality; as, a canonical
syllable pattern. Opposite of nonstandard.
Syn: standard. [WordNet 1.5]
6. Pertaining to or resembling a musical canon.
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Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books
which are declared by the canons of the church to be of
divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon.
The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books
which Protestants reject as apocryphal.
Canonical epistles, an appellation given to the epistles
called also general or catholic. See Catholic epistles,
under Canholic.
Canonical form (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical
form to which all functions of the same class can be
reduced without lose of generality.
Canonical hours, certain stated times of the day, fixed by
ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of
prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the
Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In
England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m.
to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after
which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish
church.
Canonical letters, letters of several kinds, formerly given
by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that
they were entitled to receive the communion, and to
distinguish them from heretics.
Canonical life, the method or rule of living prescribed by
the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of
living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the
monastic, and more restrained that the secular.
Canonical obedience, submission to the canons of a church,
especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their
bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors.
Canonical punishments, such as the church may inflict, as
excommunication, degradation, penance, etc.
Canonical sins (Anc. Church.), those for which capital
punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was
inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.
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hebrew scripture
(wn) | Hebrew Scripture
n 1: the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the
Torah and the Prophets and the Writings [syn: Tanakh,
Tanach, Hebrew Scripture] |
holy scripture
(wn) | Holy Scripture
n 1: the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to
carry the Word to the heathen" [syn: Bible, {Christian
Bible}, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ,
Scripture, Word of God, Word] |
sacred scripture
(wn) | sacred scripture
n 1: any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group
[syn: scripture, sacred scripture] |
scripture
(wn) | Scripture
n 1: the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to
carry the Word to the heathen" [syn: Bible, {Christian
Bible}, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ,
Scripture, Word of God, Word]
2: any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group
[syn: scripture, sacred scripture] |
scriptures
(devil) | SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as
distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other
faiths are based.
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