biblic

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1. archaicBiblical.

   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 Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 846, column 2

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   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 English Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 846, column 2

   Not only the chain of ignorance, but alſo that curſed idolatrous mythology, which is the bulwark of ignorance and popery, received a deadly blow, by Luther’s reformation, but this was the effect of that divine and biblic revelation, which Thomas Paine ignorantly ridicules and rejects, as enſlaving the mind, and monopolizing profit.

   1794, Christopher Frederick Triebner, A Key to the French Revolution; or, An Account of Modern Jesuitism. […], London: […] the Author, and sold by Messrs. Rivingtons, […], pages 115–116

   Popery . . its anti-biblic origin.

   1839, J[ohn] Rogers, Antipopopr., iv. § 2. 174; quoted in “Anti-, prefix.”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 363, column 3

   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 Medium for the Deliberate Discussion of Important Questions in Religion, Philosophy, History, Politics, Social Economy, etc., volume VI, London: […] Houlston and Stoneman, […], page 314

   I contributed my own tributary stream of erudition, and we held a biblic colloquy in a language strangely varied with the French accent, the German accent and the unreasonable accent that used to be taught at Harvard.

   1874 April, Edward Strahan [pseudonym; Earl Shinn], “The New Hyperion. From Paris to Marly by Way of the Rhine.”, in Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, volume XIII, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott and Co., page 401

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1. Alternative letter-case form of biblic.

   Martin Luther, saith the legend, / Seated in his study grim, / Conning some old Biblic story / When Old Nick appeared to him, / Neither gun or pistol had he / To oppose the one he feared, / So he threw the inkstand at him, / And the Devil disappeared.

   1897, William Devere, Jim Marshall’s New Planner and Other Western Stories (Specially Adapted for Public Reading.), New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; London: M. Witmark & Sons, page 88

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   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 episcopal mitre, recurs on the bronzes of Lorenzo Ghiberti.

   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 tabellarii of Charlemagne, […]

   1888, L’Union postale, page 164