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d New Testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James's Bible; Douay Bible; Luther's Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.

A great drinker; a tippler. [Written also bibbler and bibbeler.]

i, A. D. 1609-10. Various revised editions have since been published. [Written also Doway Bible. Called also the Rheims and Douay version.]

all threestringed viol; a rebec. Moore (Encyc. of Music). All can be play on gittern or ribible. Chaucer.

A ribble. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.

A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11).

Without sympathy; unfavorably. To make the Bible as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof and with caution, is the worst of all impieties. I. Taylor.

Sanctioned by authority. The Authorized Version of the Bible is the English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under sanction of King James I. It was "appointed to be read in churches," and has been the accepted English Bible. The Revised Version was published in a complete form in 1855.

An international, interdenominational organization of Bible classes of young men; -- so named in allusion to the Hebrew word Berachah (Meaning blessing) occurring in 2 Chron. xx. 26 and 1 Chron. xii.

An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.

The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.

According to the Bible.

Learning or literature relating to the Bible. [R.]

One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.

Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divine Coleridge. F. W. Newman.

The literature or doctrine of the Bible.

One who makes the Bible the sole rule of faith.