biblic
biblic adjective: biblical.
Adjective (1)
biblic (comparative more biblic, superlative most biblic)
- Biblical.
- A late Writer . . in his Biblic Inquisitions.1684, N. S., Crit. Enq. Edit. Bible, App. 294; quoted in “Biblic (bi·blik), a.”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford...
- Biblick Exercitations.1725, Dupin’s Eccl. Hist., I. v. 180; quoted in “Biblic (bi·blik), a.”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English...
Adjective (2) capitalized: Biblic
Biblic (comparative more Biblic, superlative most Biblic)
- Alternative letter-case form of biblic.
- The Biblic expression, as it is translated, ‘of the Ancient of Day’—which means, ‘He that existed before time,’ furnished the primitive artists, instead of an image of supreme majesty, only with the hoary image of age: and such a figure borne along by a globe of angels, and crowned with a kind of...1820, Henry Fuseli, Lectures on Painting, Delivered at the Royal Academy, London: […] T. Cadell and W. Davies, […]; and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, pages 167–168
- […] if you told him of the researches made in order to rescue from oblivion the angarii and astandae, a kind of postal messengers of antiquity, or to connect the modern posts with the couriers of the remote periods of Biblic history, of the Roman era with its cursus publicus, and with the...1888, L’Union postale, page 164
Examples of biblic in a sentence
- 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; […]1855, “The Essayist. Byron.”, in The British Controversialist, and Impartial Inquirer: Established for the Purpose of Forming a Suitable...
- 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.1882, Will Fuentres, “A Sad Experience”, in Puck, page 356:
- Should we think of Judas's 30 silver coins, we'd have the ratio of 10,000 forints for one biblic silver coin.1995, Rumanian Review, page 65:
- The second biblic revelation is more sophisticated than the first.2011, Constantin Portelli, The Logic of Divine Creation, Pittsburgh, Pa.: RoseDog Books, →ISBN, page 27:
Forms of biblic
| comparative | more biblic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most biblic |
| alternative form | Biblic |
| comparative | more Biblic |
| superlative | most Biblic |
Origin of biblic
From Medieval Latin biblicus, analyzable as bible + -ic.
Questions about biblic
- What does biblic mean?
- Biblic means biblical.
- How do you use biblic in a sentence?
- 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; […]
- What part of speech is biblic?
- Biblic is an adjective.
Words near biblic in the dictionary
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