Scripturist
English
Etymology
Scripture + -ist
Noun
Scripturist (plural Scripturists)
- One who is strongly attached to, or versed in, the Scriptures, or who endeavours to live by them.
- Palfrey
- The Puritan was a Scripturist with all his heart, if as yet with imperfect intelligence […] he cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory.
- Palfrey
Related terms
- scripturalist
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Scripturist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)