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Sacred Writ
a. With modifying word, as in Divine Writ, Sacred Writ. Earliest and most frequently in Holy Writ (see Holy Writ n.).
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OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Corpus Oxf.) ii. xvi. 152 Æfter þon þe halige writu sprecað.
c1175 ( in A. O. Belfour 12th Cent. Homilies in MS Bodl. 343 (1909) 42 Swa swa þæt godcunde writ [OE Vercelli godcunde gewrit] cwæð.
c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 495 Wiþ-outen witnesse of holi writ Wisdam weore hit non.
c1480 (a1400) St. John Evangelist 184 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 114 Þe fyrste skil..he tuk vt of haly vryte [rhyme it].
1598 F. Meres tr. Luis de Granada Expos. One & Fifty Psalme in Granados Spirituall & Heauenlie Exercises xxxix. 387 O my Sonne, saith the diuine writ, if thou desirest Wisdome, preserue righteousnes, and the Lord will shew her vnto thee.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. iii. 61 His Weapons, [are] holy Sawes of sacred Writ . View more context for this quotation
1657 N. Billingsley Brachy-martyrologia xiii. 41 Now the Christians enemies abound, Laying their Churches level with the ground; Burn sacred Writs. i'th'open market-places.
1661 N. Eaton Holy Cal. 36 Christ is the Lambe so sacred Writs define.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 237 Of Daniel, you may read in Holy Writ.
1727 J. G. Scheuchzer tr. E. Kæmpfer Hist. Japan I. i. vi. 86 The Japanese language is one of those, which Sacred Writs mention, that the all-wise Providence hath thought fit..to introduce into the minds of the vain builders of the Babylonian Tower.
1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. i. 60 Cæsarea..is remarkable in sacred writ upon several accounts.
1805 H. T. Colebrooke in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) (1808) 8 483 Writers on ethics sometimes draw from the Vedas illustrations of moral maxims, and quote from their holy writ passages at full length, in support of ethical precepts.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Tell's Birth-Place in Sibyll. Leaves 264 To Nature and to Holy writ Alone did God the boy commit.
1858 Times 22 May 9/5 If sacred writ is still to furnish themes for our painters, it must be to those rarely-gifted spirits among them who can..feel with more profoundness of belief.
1905 Morpeth Herald 21 Jan. 3/6 The first chapter of Genesis is that part of the impregnable rock of Divine writ against which the fury of sceptical antagonists especially rages.
2014 Early Amer. Lit. 49 524 If one half of sacred writ predominates, it is the New Testament.
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