单词 | punctist |
释义 | † punctistn.adj. Obsolete. A person who holds or advocates the view that the vowel points in the Hebrew Scriptures are authoritative. Also as adj. ΚΠ 1689 tr. B. de Spinoza Treat. Theol. Polit. vii. 177 He explains the Text..quite otherwise, then it is in the pointed Hebrew Text; as if the Apostle had been to learn the Sense of Scripture from the Punctists. 1816 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 348/2 The learner [is] directed to those rules..which account for the various changes of Letters and Points.—The whole being so arranged as to suit both the Punctist and the Antipunctist. 1859 T. S. Henderson Life E. Henderson iii. 118 (note) Mr. Henderson..had become a punctist before 1811,..though he never went to the full-length of the writer above-mentioned, who vindicated even for the pause-accents ‘the signature of a divine hand’. 1873 W. Penn How to learn to read Hebrew Bible Pref. p. iii The student..can..entertain and decide for himself, the comparative merits of the Punctist and Anti-Punctist views. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.adj.1689 |
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