Meaning

(archaic) A great drinker; a tippler..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic) A great drinker; a tippler.
2. (archaic, slang, derogatory) A protestant.
3. A student at a boarding school who has the job of reading from the bible during meals.
4. (slang, Winchester College) A flogging of six cuts on the small of the back in which the bible clerk and ostiarius held up the culprit's shirt while a school official administered the flogging.
5. One given to quoting the bible; a bible-thumper.

Example Sentences

Mr. W. H. Cummings defends the character of Purcell from the remarks of Mr. J. F. Crowest, who in his anxiety to prove that wine has always stimulated music, makes Purcell a bibler.

Somehow the popular idealism pictures the bibler as a stout hearty individual of merry moods and good vigour, while the typical total-abstinence fanatic arises in our minds as one of colourless vitality and sombre physiognomy.

It was also said that the son was a bibler and the father a total abstainer.

What must have been thought of drunkenness during the reign of Tiberius may be inferred from the fact that this emperor, surnamed Biberius (the bibler), appointed Pison Prefect of Rome for having passed two days and nights with him at the drinking board, witnessing the feats of inglorious Novellius Torquatus, who was surnamed Tricongius from his ability to swallow three congii (about three quarts) of wine at one draught.

At a comparatively early period in the history of the school the tendency which within the last forty years abolished the First and Second Forms seems to have been in existence, no First Form figuring in the school list of 1678, in which its place is taken by the Bibler's seat —the Bibler being a boy deputed to read a portion of Scripture in the Hall during dinner.

as the Church-mens policy was great, so they forgot not to foresee a storm, in case Mary should depart without issue, and the Crown come to Elizabeth, who was, as the Germans called them, a Protestant, as the French, a Huguenot, or of the Religion, as the English, a Lollard, a Bibler, a Gospeller; wherefore there were many plots to take her away;

And bcause it greueth them that your subiectes be growen so farre in knowlege of theyr dewtye to God, to youre grace, & to theyr neghboures, theyr inwarde malyce doth breake oute in to blasphemous & vncomlye wordes, in so much that they cal your louynge & faythfull people, heretikes, new fangled fellowes, English biblers, coblers of diuinite, fellowes of the new fayth. &c . with such other vngodly sayenges.

There credence and their language was alike, All Babel-biblers they did dead dislike.

Word Forms

• biblers
• bibbeler
• bibbler

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