biblically

alternative Biblically

1. not comparableIn a biblical manner.

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   Furthermore, what would otherwise be good points about the sort of selective literalism that renders homosexuality an unpardonable sin but shrugs off Sarah Palin’s biblically forbidden pearl earrings are lost in Eichenwald’s assumption that evangelicals make these decisions “with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch.”

   2015 January 6, Rachel Held Evans, “What Newsweek gets wrong about evangelicals”, in CNN

2. euphemisticnot comparableCarnally; in the biblical sense.

   Most of them showed an intimate knowledge of the young blonde, leading Seth to the conclusion they had known her biblically.

   2003, L. D. White, Forever House, page 3

3. figurativelynot comparableVery greatly; especially, exceeding previous records in scale.

   He so fine, he got me down bad biblically.

comparative more Biblically · superlative most Biblically

1. Alternative letter-case form of biblically.

   It [the number 17] has importance in both of the math realm and Biblically.

   2011, Sandra Leigh Savage, Love Letters, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 47

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   He is now in practice, and must be past the midway point of the Biblically allotted span of man’s life.

   1915, T[heophilus] N[icholas] Kelynack, Defective Children, London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., […], page 253

   “We’re a Biblically illiterate community,” acknowledges the Rev. Randall Updegraff Spleth, the 34-year-old pastor of booming Geist Disciples of Christ Church in Indiana.

   1990 December 17, Kenneth L. Woodward, Jeanne Gordon, Nonny de la Pena, Patricia King, Marc Peyser, Michael Mason, Nadine Joseph, Deborah Rosenberg, Roxie Hammill, “Shopping for a Church: With babes in arms and doubts in mind, young Americans return to God”, in Newsweek, volume CXVI, number 25, page 47

   Freyda had cursed her then, with a hatred so venomous, so long-stifled, so Biblically intense that she had immediately repressed the exact words her friend said.

   1998 fall, Vicki Lindner, “To Cole Cole”, in Lorrie Moore, editor, Ploughshares: Fiction Issue, volume 24, number 2/3, →ISBN, page 97