scripturelessadj.

1563 J. Davidson Answer to Tractiue Kennedy in D. Laing Misc. Wodrow Soc. (1844) I. 238 He callis thaim factious men, because thay will not subscrive to Scriptureles Councels.

1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall v. sig. B3 Buriall is ordinarilie traduced as a scripturelesse thing.

1646 N. Homes Vindic. baptizing Beleevers Infants 214 Admission of them to the Lord's Supper, because baptized, is a meere Scripturelesse and an alogicall, irrational non sequitur.

1752 A. Jackson Question Answered 55 This dangerous and scriptureless argument has a direct tendency to sap the foundations, and totally subvert all true religion.

1860 Christian Observer Sept. 599 These are just the kind of sermons which ought to be substituted for the speculative and scriptureless disquisitions which are now doing mischief where they are preached.

1885 A. Blackburn in Homiletic Rev. July 57 There is a godless spiritualism, a Christless Unitarianism, and a Scriptureless ‘new theology’.

1924 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 43 6 Neither the church nor the synagogue can long continue Scriptureless. After straying in the byways, the ancient paths will once more be trodden.

1996 Re: Is Anyone Else Ashamed by our Disunity? in soc.religion.christian (Usenet newsgroup) 4 Mar. The books aren't even spiritual anymore, they're scriptureless psychobabble.