Scripturist

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English

Etymology

From Scripture +‎ -ist.

Noun

Scripturist (plural Scripturists)

  1. One who is strongly attached to, or versed in, the Scriptures, or who endeavours to live by them.
    • 1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter VII, in History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty. , volume I, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, book I, page 274:
      The Puritan was a Scripturist,—a Scripturist with all his heart, if, as yet, with imperfect intelligence. […] [H]e cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Scripturist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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