Scripture /(?; 135)/

Scrip·ture

Scripture

n.
  1. Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.
    I have put it in scripture and in remembrance.
    Then the Lord of Manny read the scripture on the tomb, the which was in Latin.
    — Ld. Berners.
  2. The books of the Old and the New Testament, or of either of them; the Bible; -- used by way of eminence or distinction, and chiefly in the plural.
    There is not any action a man ought to do, or to forbear, but the Scripture will give him a clear precept or prohibition for it.
    Compared with the knowledge which the Scriptures contain, every other subject of human inquiry is vanity.
    — Buckminster.
  3. A passage from the Bible; a text.
    The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
    Hanging by the twined thread of one doubtful Scripture.