Biblical
Americanadjective
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of or in the Bible.
a Biblical name.
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in accord with the Bible.
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evocative of or suggesting the Bible or Biblical times, especially in size or extent.
disaster on a Biblical scale; a Biblical landscape.
adjective
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of, occurring in, or referring to the Bible
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resembling the Bible in written style
Other Word Forms
- Biblically adverb
- anti-Biblical adjective
- anti-Biblically adverb
- biblically adverb
- non-Biblical adjective
- non-Biblically adverb
- post-Biblical adjective
- pro-Biblical adjective
Etymology
Origin of Biblical
1780–90; < Medieval Latin biblic ( us ) ( bibl ( ia ) Bible + -icus -ic ) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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Although their popularity waxes and wanes like everything else, stories inspired by biblical texts have had a consistent presence on TV and film since the industry’s dawning.
From Salon
The message echoes a stark biblical warning.
From Salon
And belying urban legends, there was no link to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve or the death of computing pioneer Alan Turing.
From Barron's
Displacement and persecution is part of the Jewish narrative and identity, from the biblical exodus from Egypt, which Jews will mark next week with the celebration of Passover, to being kicked out of Spain in 1492 to being rounded up and gassed in Germany, Poland and elsewhere in the 1940s.
The Protestant defenders of England’s Glorious Revolution of 1689, which deposed an autocratic monarch and established a constitutional government, were armed with a biblical text deeply rooted in Tyndale’s translation.
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