Script'ure, n.
(skrĭpt'yur, 53), n. [Lat. scriptura, from scribere, scriptum, to write; O. Fr. escripture, escriture, N. Fr. écriture, Pr. escriptura, scriptura, Sp. & Pg. escritura, It. scrittura.
Sense 1. Any thing written; a writing; a document.
Then the Lord of Manny read the scripture on the tomb, the which was in Latin. Ld. Berners.
Sense 2. The books of the Old and New Testament; the Bible;—used by way of eminence or distinction, and chiefly in the plural.
There is not any action that a man ought to do or forbear, but the Scripture will give him a clear precept or prohibition for it. South.
Compared with the knowledge which the Scriptures contain, every other subject of human inquiry is vanity and emptiness. Buckminster.
Sense 3. A passage from the Scriptures; a Bible text.
“Hanging, by the twined thread of one doubtful scripture.” Milton.