scriptural

Of, relating to, or in accordance with scripture.

Adjective

  1. Of, relating to, or in accordance with scripture.
    • When explicated in Augustine’s On Christian Teaching or in Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, the ordo amoris emerges as a concept that is both cogent on its own terms—reciprocal obligations incurred through birth and...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti Proto-Italic *skreiβō Latin scrībō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin scrīptūrader. Middle English scripture English scripture Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English scriptural From scripture + -al.

Synonyms

biblical orthodox

Antonyms

antibiblical antiorthodox antiscriptural exscriptural heretical heterodox nonbiblical nonorthodox nonscriptural unbiblical unscriptural

Derived

scripturalism scripturalist scripturality scripturally scripturalness