Scrip"ture (?; 135), n. [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.
Shak.
Hanging by the twined thread of one doubtful
Scripture.
Milton.
Scrip"ture (?; 135), n. [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.
Shak.
Hanging by the twined thread of one doubtful
Scripture.
Milton.