Scripture word meaning and definition

[noun] any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group
[noun] the sacred writings of the Christian religion; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen"

\Scrip"ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. scriptura, fr. scribere, scriptum, to write: cf. OF. escripture, escriture, F. ['e]criture. See {Scribe}.] 1. Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription. I have put it in scripture and in remembrance. --Chaucer. 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. --South. Compared with the knowledge which the Scripteres contain, every other subject of human inquiry is vanity. --Buckminster. 3. A passage from the Bible;; a text. The devil can eite Scripture for his purpose. --Shak. Hanging by the twined thread of one doubtful Scripture. --Milton.

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