Definition of Scriptures

1. Noun. (plural of scripture) ¹

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Definition of Scriptures

1. scripture [n] - See also: scripture

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scriptures

scriptment
scriptments
scriptoria
scriptorial
scriptorium
scriptoriums
scriptory
scripts
scriptural
scripturalism
scripturalist
scripturalists
scripturally
scripturalness
scripture
scriptures (current term)
scripturist
scriptwriter
scriptwriters
scriptwriting
scrit
scritch
scritched
scritches
scritching
scrive
scrived
scrivened
scrivener
scrivener's palsy

Literary usage of Scriptures

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"nothing, if they have all scriptures. And ' the spirit of truth shall lead ... And none know the scriptures, nor God, nor can be a minister of the spirit by ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"From the allusions in Greek and Roman writers, like Herodotus, Plutarch, Pliny, and others, it had long been surmised that such a body of scriptures existed ..."

3. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"They had found this obscured and half-forgotten truth recorded, as they believed, with perfect clearness, in the scriptures. The authority of the scriptures ..."

4. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1896)
"They had found this obscured and half-forgotten truth recorded, as they believed, with perfect clearness, in the scriptures. The authority of the scriptures ..."

5. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1845)
"273. credit to be given to the canonical scriptures, whatever the Apocrypha ... 412. the scriptures are the Mount Sinai, the bounds whereof are the laws of ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Erasmus still clung to the mystical or allegorical interpretation of certain scriptures and thought that the Holy Spirit had intended that some words should ..."

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