| 单词 | indian bible |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIndian Bible Indian Bible n. now chiefly historical a Bible translated into a North American Indian language; esp. John Eliot's 1663 translation of the Bible into Massachusett (the first complete Bible published in North America). ΚΠ 1663 J. Eliot Let. 6 May in R. Baxter Reliquæ Baxterianæ (1696) 293 My Work about the Indian Bible being..finished, I am meditating what to do next. 1791 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. II. xiv. 47 Governor Shute..introduced this important business by offering them..an Indian bible, and a protestant missionary. 1994 Amer. Q. 46 501 Most of the Indian Bibles that..Eliot printed were destroyed during the fighting. < as lemmas |
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