01 n. Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.
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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.
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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 Scriptures contain, every other subject of human inquiry is vanity.” — Buckminster.
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