Biblical
Americanadjective
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of or in the Bible.
a Biblical name.
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in accord with the Bible.
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evocative of or suggesting the Bible or Biblical times, especially in size or extent.
disaster on a Biblical scale; a Biblical landscape.
adjective
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of, occurring in, or referring to the Bible
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resembling the Bible in written style
Other Word Forms
- Biblically adverb
- anti-Biblical adjective
- anti-Biblically adverb
- biblically adverb
- non-Biblical adjective
- non-Biblically adverb
- post-Biblical adjective
- pro-Biblical adjective
Etymology
Origin of Biblical
1780–90; < Medieval Latin biblic ( us ) ( bibl ( ia ) Bible + -icus -ic ) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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Unamuno's first thoughts were that La Guaira was experiencing another natural disaster, 26 years ago after a landslide of biblical proportions swept away 10,000 people, many of them washed out to sea.
From Barron's
He retained his devotion to Judaism in various forms, attended a variety of synagogues and sometimes chanted biblical verses or gave guest sermons.
But as a feeling, it’s far more akin to gospel, like a baroque passage of biblical scripture comparing the earthly limitations of the body and the endless possibilities of the mind.
From Salon
The project, dubbed “Deus in Machina,” was an experiment aimed at seeing how people responded to the interaction with the chatbot, which was trained on biblical texts, and to explore “critical questions about ethics, spirituality, humanity, and personhood in the era of AI,” according to the researchers’ report on the experiment.
From Salon
Paul Hoffman, a pastor and professor of biblical studies at Samford University, told Salon that while chatbots might be able to provide information about religious texts, he doesn’t think they’re able to provide the wisdom that traditional authoritative voices on spirituality might be able to.
From Salon
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