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Definition of Pericope
1. n. A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon.
Definition of Pericope
1. Noun. (rhetoric) A section of text forming a coherent thought, suitable for use in a speech. ¹
2. Noun. A passage of Scripture to be read in public worship or a book containing such passages. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pericope
1. a selection from a book [n -PES or -PAE]
Medical Definition of Pericope
1. A selection or extract from a book; especially, a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon. Origin: L, section of a book, Gr.; around + to cut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pericope
Literary usage of Pericope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Early identical pericope system, not derived Western immediately from the ...
the first, it is indicated that the first pericope :- not to be regarded as ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Referring to literature: spec, comma- tion (Gr. prosody), pericope (chiefly in
writing on Biblical literature), commonplace, collectanea (pi.). ..."
3. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon, Edward Miller (1896)
"11) which contain the history of ' the woman taken in adultery,'—the pericope de
adultera, as it is called. Altogether indispensable is it that the reader ..."
4. Journal of Theological Studies by Oxford Journals (Oxford University Press) (1906)
"Westcott and Hort write of the pericope, that ' In the whole range of Greek
patristic literature before cent, (io or) 12 there is but one trace of any ..."
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