(a.) Contained in the Scriptures; according to the Scriptures, or sacred oracles; biblical; as, a scriptural doctrine.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you don't know the scriptures you can't understand why.
(2) "The Remembrance Sunday Service at the Cenotaph has always contained prayers and readings from scripture, and the fact that it continues to be so central a part of our public life would suggest that it is meeting people's pastoral needs," said the Venerable Peter Eagles, archdeacon for the army.
(3) Unofficial Guardian scorecard Pacquiao 10 - 9 Bradley Manny's mom is getting to work in supporting her son - there's a lot of scripture and crosses involved - a spectacle.
(4) However, the age at which a mother has sole responsibility for her children is determined by scripture.
(5) It also tells us – on the firm foundation of Holy Scriptures – that policies intended to slow the pace of climate change represent a "dangerous expansion of government control over private life".
(6) Phil Johnson explains the continuing faith in these stories by reference to scripture: “The Bible says people like fables.
(7) The key point here is that while the words of scripture are fixed and unchangeable they are always subject to human interpretation, and interpretations may vary according to time, place and social conditions.
(8) The way I read scripture … I’m not sure what their values are and why they want to exclude, if we’re called to love one another and even love an enemy,” she said.
(9) There’s a passage in the scriptures that says, ‘Let the work that I do speak for me.’ “And Jeb’s record speaks for him.
(10) He later studied creative writing and religious studies: "It was scriptural interpretation, mainly, reading the Bible in different translations.
(11) In such a way, Poussin compressed his consummate knowledge of Rome's buildings, artworks and landscapes, and his deep, careful reading of scripture, epics, histories and science, into forms that would pass permanently out of his sight – since after 1642, he made no move to visit his native land again.
(12) That included Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist college in South Carolina that claimed a scriptural basis for segregation.
(13) My comments that you may have read are from the holy scriptures, and this is what I live from.
(14) John quotes him as writing in a letter to a friend: "By the end of the 80s I had definitely come to the conclusion that Scripture was not dealing with the predicament of persons whom we should recognise as homosexual by nature.
(15) Trouble was that, according to the scriptures, lending was a sin.
(16) The traveling religious workers who died, or were injured, would visit immigrant Sikh communities in America to help with duties such as reciting of the scriptures at the gurdwaras, and perform rituals in other community events like marriages.
(17) This is the most exceptional nation in the history of the world.” Carson said he had leaned on scripture to weather tempests on the campaign trail.
(18) The conference passed a resolution “rejecting homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture” but also calling on “all our people to minister pastorally and sensitively to all irrespective of sexual orientation and to condemn irrational fear of homosexuals”.
(19) Some traditionalists fear the act of participating in the “shared conversations”, which are aimed at “good disagreement” within the church, implies an acceptance that differing interpretations of biblical scripture are possible.
(20) C of E fears talks on gay rights could end global Anglican communion Read more But the leaders of six African provinces are expected to walk out in opposition to any interpretation of the scriptures that could lead to greater acceptance of homosexuality and same-sex marriage, causing a de facto split between conservatives and liberals.
Textual
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text; as, textual criticism; a textual reading.
(a.) Serving for, or depending on, texts.
(a.) Familiar with texts or authorities so as to cite them accurately.
Example Sentences:
(1) The metaphor of clinical work as textual explication, however, creates the expectation that there is a text somewhere to be found.
(2) An electron microscopy image base, which is implemented on a microcomputer, can provide flexible and simultaneous access to both digitized electron micrographs and their relevant textual data.
(3) The Trip made sport of Coogan's trouble breaking Hollywood, yet no mention is made of the Oscar-nominated Philomena , which was shot shortly before this and could have made an interesting meta-textual cameo.
(4) Scalia was subsequently lampooned in a cartoon segment of Stewart’s The Daily Show titled “The Human Dissentipede.” Scalia was a champion of originalism, which he later called textualism: the approach to constitutional interpretation that looks to the meaning of words and concepts as they were understood by America’s founding fathers in the context of the 18th century.
(5) The study suggests that the Inquirer II System used by computers in content analysis of (textual) specific written material has value for longitudinal studies.
(6) In addition to the advantage of more efficient retrieval, electronic storage of textual data and digitized electron micrographs also offers the advantage of decreased storage space for this type of data.
(7) Jewish textual interpretation, in which the text alone yields authority, is nourished--like psychoanalysis--by the tension between reality and fantasy, by the contradiction between power and desire.
(8) Several variables that could influence the effectiveness of textual prompts to promote stimulus control were examined across four groups.
(9) In order to examine age differences in the ability to manipulate textual information, young and old adults were asked to recall and summarize prose passages.
(10) The system is also implemented in a demonstration mode to provide retrieval from three additional textual databases.
(11) The complexity of this task is due to the nature of the knowledge resources--knowledge can be in a variety of forms, ranging from textual and pictorial material, to structured representations, to more dynamic embodiments in the form of procedures.
(12) A microcomputer based database on dangerous animals and plants with capabilities of displaying real colour pictures of these animals and plants on the computer screen in addition to textual information has been developed and is available for medical doctors and other interested academics and professionals.
(13) The difficulty of presenting parasite life cycles in a textual or diagrammatic form is discussed and the use of computer-aided learning to solve this is described.
(14) A nationwide agreement on one key-system--including the transformation of textual structures--is proposed.
(15) While asserting this, no critic has traced the textual complexity of this persona, which is apparent in Cleland's use of figurative language and is accessible through close reading only.
(16) A technique for the integration of molecular images with supplementary textual and graphical information provided by commercial video titling software is also explained.
(17) The surgeon can get textual analysis at any time or see accelerated healing to the projected nasal appearance at 1 year.
(18) Sperling noted that his work was mostly historical and textual and that he had tenure, meaning that an inability to visit China should not affect his ability to keep a job, as it might for some scholars.
(19) With immediate testing, only 250 ms after the text, performance is shown to depend on semantic-associative information, not on textual information.
(20) This article describes the objectives, design and performance of a computer program which provides a textual simulation of autopsies.