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Holy Writ
[See holy a. and writ.]
Holy writings collectively; spec. the Bible or Holy Scriptures. In earlier times, sometimes including other writings dealing with sacred subjects.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. ii. xvi. [xx.] (1890) 152 æfter þon þe haliᵹe writu sprecað. c1200Vices & Virtues 15 We findeð on hali write. a1225Ancr. R. 98 Ase holi writ seið, ‘hore speche spret ase cauncre’. c1305St. Kenelm 258 in E.E.P. (1862) 54 Þe pope nam þis holi writ. a1375Lay Folks Mass Bk. App. iv. 90 Wiþ-outen witnesse of holi writ Wisdam weore hit non. c1400Mandeville (1839) xii. 136 Thei han Gospelles and the Prophecyes and the Byble writen in here Langage, Wherfore thei conne meche of Holy Wrytt. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 324 Confirmations strong, As proofes of holy Writ. 1700Dryden Cock & Fox 380 Of Daniel you may read in holy writ. 1714Pope Wife of Bath 346 And close the sermon, as beseem'd his wit, With some grave sentence out of holy writ. 1805Colebrooke in Asiat. Res. (1808) VIII. 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. 1817Coleridge Sibyl. Leaves (1862) 245 To Nature and to Holy Writ Alone did God the boy commit. |