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English
Adjective
Biblic (comparative more Biblic, superlative most Biblic)
- Alternative letter-case form of biblic.
1820, Henry Fuseli, Lectures on Painting, Delivered at the Royal Academy, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, ; and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, pages 167–168:The Biblic expression, as it is translated, ‘of the Ancient of Day’—which means, ‘He that existed before time,’ furnished the primitive artists, instead of an image of supreme majesty, only with the hoary image of age: and such a figure borne along by a globe of angels, and crowned with a kind of episcopal mitre, recurs on the bronzes of Lorenzo Ghiberti.
1888, L’Union postale, page 164:[…] if you told him of the researches made in order to rescue from oblivion the angarii and astandae, a kind of postal messengers of antiquity, or to connect the modern posts with the couriers of the remote periods of Biblic history, of the Roman era with its cursus publicus, and with the tabellarii of Charlemagne, […]
1897, William Devere, Jim Marshall’s New Planner and Other Western Stories (Specially Adapted for Public Reading.), New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill., London: M. Witmark & Sons, page 88:Martin Luther, saith the legend, / Seated in his study grim, / Conning some old Biblic story / When Old Nick appeared to him, / Neither gun or pistol had he / To oppose the one he feared, / So he threw the inkstand at him, / And the Devil disappeared.