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scrip·ture (skrip′c̸hər)

noun

  1. Obsolete anything written
  2. a Bible passage
    1. any sacred writing or books
    2. any writing regarded as authoritative and inviolable
  4. the sacred writings of the Jews, identical with the Old Testament of the Christians
  5. the Christian Bible; Old and New Testaments

Etymology: ME < L scriptura, a writing, in LL(Ec), a Scripture, passage of Scripture < scriptus: see script

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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