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Bibler|ˈbaɪblə(r)| [f. Bible + -er1.] †a. A student or reader of the Bible. †b. A Bible-clerk. c. Sc. One of the older scholars in a Scotch country school, so called because the Bible was their class-book.
1538Coverdale N.T. Ded., New-fangled fellows, English biblers, coblers of divinity. 1569in Etoniana (1865) 220 The Bibler's office seems to have been to read a portion of Scripture in the hall at dinner. In the accounts for 1569 there is a charge ‘for making ii halfpaces in the hawle for the Bybelers to stand upon, vs.’ 1625tr. Gonsalvio's Sp. Inquis. 170 Many would scornfully..tearm him a good Bibler. 1883Nasmyth Autobiog. ii. 20 The ‘Bibler's Seat’ is marked [i.e. a seat on the Castle rock to which the bigger boys used to climb]. |