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unˈscriptural, a.
(un-1 7.)
1653Gauden Hierasp. 14 How unscriptural..do they seem to many..Christians? 1683E. Hooker Pref. Pordage's Mystic Div. 71 Unwritten Traditions, inhumane inventions, unscriptural institutions. 1719Waterland Eight Serm. Div. Christ iii. 103 That is as manifestly unscriptural, false, and groundless, as either Socinian or Arian. 1782Priestley Corrupt. Chr. II. vii. 104 Wickliffe..saw nothing unscriptural in extreme unction. 1825Coleridge Aids Reflect. 311 The View or Scheme..I believe to be altogether unscriptural. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 112 Prelacy was abhorred..both as an unscriptural and as a foreign institution.
Hence unˈscripturally adv., -alness.
1677W. Hughes Man of Sin iii. ii. 27 Besides the unscripturalness of such visits. 1824D. Russell Covenants (1843) 182 Some have spoken very..unscripturally of the good works and holy tempers of believers. 1868Miall Congregationalism in Yorks. 15 Cartwright had openly proclaimed..the unscripturalness of the Anglican hierarchy. |