Meaning

(archaic) Biblical..

Example Sentences

A late Writer . . in his Biblic Inquisitions.

Biblick Exercitations.

Not only the chain of ignorance, but alſo that curſed idolatrous mythology, which is the bulwark of ignorance and popery, received a deadly blow, by Luther’s reformation, but this was the effect of that divine and biblic revelation, which Thomas Paine ignorantly ridicules and rejects, as enſlaving the mind, and monopolizing profit.

Popery . . its anti-biblic origin.

Rejecting a biblic revelation of man and his destiny, Byron gave himself up to a belief in a dark and fatalistic creed, mysterious as monstrous, uncertain and undefined; […]

I contributed my own tributary stream of erudition, and we held a biblic colloquy in a language strangely varied with the French accent, the German accent and the unreasonable accent that used to be taught at Harvard.

Those geologists and naturalists who have an itch for contradicting biblic history, must, if they wish to convict it of falsehood, prove that man has been an inhabitant of this globe for more than about six thousand years.

I had lived like a monk in a cloister, / With tomes that were musty to smell, / A sort of gregarious oyster, / Encased in a biblic shell.

Word Forms

• more biblic
• most biblic
• Biblic

When Should You Use Biblic?

Use biblic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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