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scrip·ture (skrip′c̸hər)
noun
- Obsolete anything written
- a Bible passage
- any sacred writing or books
- any writing regarded as authoritative and inviolable
- the sacred writings of the Jews, identical with the Old Testament of the Christians
- the Christian Bible; Old and New Testaments
Etymology: ME < L scriptura, a writing, in LL(Ec), a Scripture, passage of Scripture < scriptus: see script
Related Forms:
- scriptural scrip′·tural adjective
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