"in the biblical sense" meaning in English

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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see biblical, sense."
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          "word": "as the actress said to the bishop"
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          "ref": "1993, Harold Miles, Bad ol' boy, page 122",
          "text": "I was married to you the moment I took you as my wife. That first night I pushed you backward on your bed and took you in the Biblical sense, from that moment on, we were man and wife.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993 February 26, “NOTORIOUS WOMEN RECOVER FROM THEIR LOVE AFFAIRS”, in Ind_Geraldo (Rivera)",
          "text": "Unidentified Man 2: How you doing? I've got a question for Pamela. How many rock stars have you met in your whole life? Ms-DES-BARRES: Oh, my gosh. Man 2: Any idea? Any idea or... Ms-LEE: He didn't ask how many you slept with. Ms-DES-BARRES: That's good. RIVERA: You mean met in the biblical sense? Man 2: I mean met and been with. Ms-DES-BARRES: I didn't sleep with that many of them.",
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          "ref": "2012 March 23, Lanford Beard, “TV Jukebox: 'The Secret Circle,' 'The Voice,' 'Switched at Birth,' and more music-on-TV moments”, in Entertainment Weekly, archived from the original on 2012-04-26",
          "text": "The young witches made their relationship official — in the Biblical sense — and Welch’s howling entreaty, “I’d do anything to make you stay,” expressed their yearning and desperation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Etienne, Trial, page 28",
          "text": "Well, I'm no longer seeing him in the biblical sense, but I do run him from time to time.",
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        "Carnally; sexually."
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        "(euphemistic) Carnally; sexually."
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          "ref": "1993, Harold Miles, Bad ol' boy, page 122",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993 February 26, “NOTORIOUS WOMEN RECOVER FROM THEIR LOVE AFFAIRS”, in Ind_Geraldo (Rivera)",
          "text": "Unidentified Man 2: How you doing? I've got a question for Pamela. How many rock stars have you met in your whole life? Ms-DES-BARRES: Oh, my gosh. Man 2: Any idea? Any idea or... Ms-LEE: He didn't ask how many you slept with. Ms-DES-BARRES: That's good. RIVERA: You mean met in the biblical sense? Man 2: I mean met and been with. Ms-DES-BARRES: I didn't sleep with that many of them.",
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          "ref": "2012 March 23, Lanford Beard, “TV Jukebox: 'The Secret Circle,' 'The Voice,' 'Switched at Birth,' and more music-on-TV moments”, in Entertainment Weekly, archived from the original on 2012-04-26",
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          "type": "quotation"
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        "(euphemistic) Carnally; sexually."
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