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‖ pericope|pəˈrɪkəpiː| [Late L. pericopē (Jerome) section of a book, a. Gr. περικοπή a section, f. περί around + κοπή cutting, περικόπ-τ-ειν to cut round. In mod.F. péricope.] A short passage, section, or paragraph in a writing.
1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 59 You shall have the whole pericope, as it is in the Translation of Ptolemie from the Arabick. Ibid. 71 A corrected reading of the whole Pericope. 1884Edin. Rev. Jan. 137 The pericope of ‘the woman taken in adultery’ is entirely omitted from this work. 1889Lightfoot Ess. ‘Supernat. Relig.’ 203 This pericope is an interpolation where it stands. b. Eccl. A portion of Scripture appointed for reading in public worship.
1695J. Edwards Perfect. Script. i. xiii. 566 Jerome speaks of a Pericope of Jeremiah. 1869Ginsburg in L'pool Lit. & Phil. Soc. Proc. XXIII. 313 Next in point of antiquity is the division of the Pentateuch into 175 Pericopes. 1884D. Hunter tr. Reuss's Hist. Canon i. 3 These passages..were disconnected fragments,..simply pericopes or lessons, as they were called afterwards in the Christian Church. c. Anc. Pros. ‘A passage consisting of strophe and antistrophe’ (Liddell & Scott s.v. περικοπή). Hence pericopic |pɛrɪˈkɒpɪk| a., of, pertaining to, or connected with a pericope, esp. in relation to the lesson for the day.
1888J. Ker Lect. Hist. Preaching vii. 117 The passage for the day was called a Pericope or section, this gave rise to the Pericopic system of preaching, which prevails still on the Continent in many Protestant churches. Ibid. ix. 160 Every minister who cares to have an intelligent congregation should adopt some ‘pericopic’ system, reserving freedom for occasional divergence from it. |