Definition of Biblicist

1. n. One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

Definition of Biblicist

1. Noun. a Biblical scholar or expert. ¹

2. Noun. one who interprets the Bible literally. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Biblicist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biblicist

bible leaf
bible leaves
bible literalist
bibles
bibless
biblethumping
biblical
biblical blue
biblical mythologies
biblical mythology
biblicalities
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biblically
biblicism
biblicisms
biblicist (current term)
biblicists
biblike
biblio-
bibliobibuli
biblioclasm
bibliograph
bibliographer
bibliographers
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bibliographic database
bibliographical
bibliographically
bibliographick
bibliographies

Literary usage of Biblicist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ideal Ministry by Herrick Johnson (1908)
"Every minister should therefore have a study that will help him to be something of a bibliographer, and very much of a 'biblicist. To be a bibliographer, ..."

2. The Soothsayer Balaam, Or, The Transformation of a Sorcerer Into a Prophet by Serafim, Bishop of Ostroh Serafim (1900)
"The celebrated biblicist Ewald translates the word pS{ by idol, and ^y, ... Another celebrated biblicist, Gesenius, finds that in the passage quoted pK ..."

3. Discourses by Alexander John Scott (1866)
"The use of the former is duty and wisdom ; the use of the latter is folly and sin." Such is the scheme of him whom I will call the biblicist* in Church ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"While the position just outlined implies that Ritschl was essentially a biblicist, his attitude was materially conditioned by the ecclesiastical character ..."

5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1828)
"In the same year, the same incomparable biblicist published his Polyglott edition of the New Testament, in twelve languages; the Greek, the Latin, ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... Orientalist, biblicist, and theologian, was born, November 16, 1803, at Göttingen, where his father followed the occupation of a linen-weaver. ..."

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