"biblic" meaning in English

See biblic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more biblic [comparative], most biblic [superlative]
Etymology: From Medieval Latin biblicus. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ML.|biblicus}} Medieval Latin biblicus Head templates: {{en-adj}} biblic (comparative more biblic, superlative most biblic)
  1. (archaic) Biblical. Tags: archaic Synonyms: Biblic
    Sense id: en-biblic-en-adj-DB1RSOll Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Not only the chain of ignorance, but alſo that curſed idolatrous mythology, which is the bulwark of ignorance and popery, received a deadly blow, by Luther’s reformation, but this was the effect of that divine and biblic revelation, which Thomas Paine ignorantly ridicules and rejects, as enſlaving the mind, and monopolizing profit.",
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          "ref": "1882, Will Fuentres, “A Sad Experience”, in Puck, page 356",
          "text": "I had lived like a monk in a cloister, / With tomes that were musty to smell, / A sort of gregarious oyster, / Encased in a biblic shell.",
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          "ref": "1995, Rumanian Review, page 65",
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          "ref": "2011, Constantin Portelli, The Logic of Divine Creation, Pittsburgh, Pa.: RoseDog Books, page 27",
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