scripture

See also: Scripture

English

Chinese colporter selling scriptures in Peking (1902)

Etymology

From Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“I write”).

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Noun

scripture (countable and uncountable, plural scriptures)

  1. A sacred writing or holy book.
    The primary scripture in Zoroastrianism is the Avesta.
    • 2001, Leander Keck, Who is Jesus? →ISBN, page 143:
      It would be quite unwise to deem the whole historical enterprise as wrong-headed and to think that one can revert to the gospels' way of reading scripture, […]
  2. (by extension) An authoritative statement.

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scrīptūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of scrīptūrus
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