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in the biblical sense

in the biblical sense prepositional phrase: carnally; sexually.

Prepositional phrase (1)

  1. (euphemistic) Carnally; sexually.
    • I was married to you the moment I took you as my wife. That first night I pushed you backward on your bed and took you in the Biblical sense, from that moment on, we were man and wife.1993, Harold Miles, Bad ol' boy, page 122
    • Unidentified Man 2: How you doing? I've got a question for Pamela. How many rock stars have you met in your whole life? Ms-DES-BARRES: Oh, my gosh. Man 2: Any idea? Any idea or... Ms-LEE: He didn't ask how many you slept with. Ms-DES-BARRES: That's good. RIVERA: You mean met in the biblical sense?...1993 February 26, “NOTORIOUS WOMEN RECOVER FROM THEIR LOVE AFFAIRS”, in Ind_Geraldo (Rivera)
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see biblical, sense.
    Synonyms:
    biblically

Prepositional phrase (2) capitalized: in the Biblical sense

  1. Alternative letter-case form of in the biblical sense.
    • Hopefully I have learned something out of all my years of screwing around with bands (in the Biblical sense, that is), so can offer some words of wisdom to Sue Sullivan, who wrote the letter in MRR #34 regarding the sexual demands of touring hardcore musicians.1986 May, Lynne Lopatin, “P.O. Box”, in Maximum Rock’n’Roll, number 36, Berkeley, Calif., →ISSN, column 1
    • For the whole of Ian’s life till I turned up, the ‘official’ date that our father and mother first met – in the Biblical sense – must have been given as or assumed to be, at the very earliest, some time after Ernest was killed, 1944. But in fact our parents had met and conceived me in early 1942...2008, Dave Sharp, John Parker, Complete Surrender: The True Story of a Family’s Dark Secret and the Brothers It Tore Apart at Birth, London: John Blake Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 209

Examples of in the biblical sense in a sentence

  • RIVERA: You mean met in the biblical sense?1993 February 26, “NOTORIOUS WOMEN RECOVER FROM THEIR LOVE AFFAIRS”, in Ind_Geraldo (Rivera):
  • The young witches made their relationship official — in the Biblical sense — and Welch’s howling entreaty, “I’d do anything to make you stay,” expressed their yearning and desperation.2012 March 23, Lanford Beard, “TV Jukebox: 'The Secret Circle,' 'The Voice,' 'Switched at Birth,' and more music-on-TV moments”, in...
  • Well, I'm no longer seeing him in the biblical sense, but I do run him from time to time.2012, Etienne, Trial, page 28:

Synonyms of in the biblical sense

Forms of in the biblical sense

alternative formin the Biblical sense

Origin of in the biblical sense

Back-formation from know someone in the biblical sense.

Questions about in the biblical sense

What does in the biblical sense mean?
In the biblical sense means carnally; sexually.
How do you use in the biblical sense in a sentence?
RIVERA: You mean met in the biblical sense?
What part of speech is in the biblical sense?
In the biblical sense is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the biblical sense in the dictionary

  1. in the ballpark
  2. in the bargain
  3. in the barrel
  4. in the bed
  5. in the bedroom
  6. in the biblical sense
  7. in the black
  8. in the blink of an eye
  9. in the books
  10. in the bottom of the bag
  11. in the bucket

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: in the biblical sense (page history and authors); in the Biblical sense (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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