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scripturalism (skrip'tu-ral-izm), M. [< scrip- scripturientt (skrip-tu'ri-ent), . and . [< LL. 
DMftyyiuM L* \ i -- r _ ' t_3_ i:~i . .;..*..,. ,,,/^ \.. . 1T i r,f *.;>,; nl ni-i IT dpsiire to 
in rii I + -inn/.] The doctrine of a scripturalist; 
literal adherence to Scripture. Imp. Diet. 
scripturalist (skrip'tu-ral-ist), H. [< scriptural 
+ -int.] One who'adli'eres literally to the 
Scriptures, and makes them the foundation of 
all philosophy; one well versed in Scripture; 
a student of Scripture. 
The warm disputes among some critical Scripturalists 
of those times concerning the Visible Church of Christ 
upon Earth. 
Defoe, Tour through Great Britain, II. 214. (Dames.) 
Scripturality (skrip-tu-ral'i-ti), Scriptural- 
ness. 
Scripturality is not used by authors of the first class. 
gorfpt*rie*(t-)a, ppr. of scripturire, desire to 
write, deliberative of L. m-ribm, pp. scriplux, 
write: see scribe.] I. a. Having a desire or 
passion for writing; having a liking or itch for 
authorship. 
Here lies the corps of William Prynne ... 
This grand scripturient paper spiller, 
This endless, needless margin filler, 
Was strangely tost from post to pillar. 
A. Wood, Athense Oxon., II. 453. 
II. . One who has a passion for writing. 
They seem to be of a very quarrelsome humour, and to 
have a huge ambition to be esteemed the polemical scnp- 
turiente of the age. Bp. Parker, Platonick Philos., p. 75, 
scrofula 
\vliuseoccupation is the drawing of contracts in- 
other writings. 
As God matle you a Knight, if he had made you a Scriv- 
ener, you would haue bene more handsome to colour 
Oordouan skinnes then to haue written processe. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 83. 
scripturally (skrip'tu-ral-i), adv. In 
tural manner; from or in accordance with the 
Scriptures. Baftey, 
SCripturalneSS (skrip'tu-ral-nes), w. Scrip- 
tural character or quality. Imp. Diet. 
scripture (skrip'tur), n. and a. [< ME. scrip- scritt 
the Scriptures. 
Pembroke Hall, . . . noted from the very dawn of the 
Reformation for scripturists and encouragers of gospel 
learning. Ridley, quoted in Biog. Notice of Bradford 
[(Parker Soc., 1853), II. xvii. 
A Middle English form of script 
2. One whose business it is to receive money 
and place it out at interest, and supply those 
who want to raise money on security ; a money- 
broker ; a financial agent. 
How happy in his low degree ... U he 
Who leads a quiet country life, . . . 
And from the griping scriuener free ! 
Dryden, tr. of Horace's Epodes, ii. 
Scriveners' cramp or palsy, writers' cramp. See writer. 
= It. seritturix- scrivenership (skriv'ner-ship), . [< scrivener 
is versed in + -ship.] The office of a scrivener. Cotgrave. 
scrivenisht, and adv. [< ME. scryvenyssh; < 
xcrircn + -/x/i 1 .] Like a scrivener or notary. 
unpbuic v otvil i l LlAl ^j " J L N AIJ ^'.^' D\,iiv!. ". -- i- - scrivenourt n. An ODSOieie iurm ui VCTWI <zi . 
ture, scriptour, scrypiour, < OF. escripture, es- scritch 1 (skrich), v. i. [A var. ot screech, ult. ivpnrv f s kriv'n-ri), . [< scriven + -ry. Cf. 
criturc, F. Venture = Sp. Pg. escritura = It. an assibilated form of scrike: see scrike, shmfai. * ^. -3=.. .* 
writ I ura, a writing, scripture, < L. scriptura, a shriek.] To screech; shriek, 
writing, written character, a line, composition, "*-- " - "- 
something written, an inscription, LL. (N. T. 
and eccl.) scriptura, or pi. scriptures, the writ- 
ings contained in the Bible, the Scriptures, 
scriptura, a passage in the Bible, < scribere, scritch 1 (skrich), H. [< scritchi, <.; 
fut. part, scr-iptnrus, write : see script, scribe.] screech, ult. of scrike, shrike, shriek.] 
I. n. 1. A writing; anything written, (ot) A cry; a screech, 
document ; a deed or other record ; a narrative or other 
matter committed to writing ; a manuscript or book, or 
that which it contains. 
That dismal pair, the scritchiny owl 
And buzzing hornet ! B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, i. 2. 
On that, the hungry curlew c 
Ne scruvem/ssh or craftily thow it write. 
Chaucer, Troilus, 11. 1026. 
scriven-liket, Like a scrivener, 
scrivenourt, An obsolete form of scrivener. 
venry(skri\ ,, 
'. eserivainerie (also escrivainie), the office ot 
a scrivener, < escrivain. a scrivener: see scriven.] 
Scrivenership. 
SCrobH " A Middle English form of scrub 1 . 
,, o,u W . u . SCTOb 2 t! . A Middle English form of scni&p. 
n t SCTObe (skrob), w. [< L. scrolls, a ditch, dike, 
A atw-ii trench. Hence ult. scrobicula, etc., and prob. 
ult. screw 1 .] In entom. : (a) A groove in the 
side of the rostrum in which the scape or basal 
joint of the antenna is received, in the weevils 
And many other marveylles ben there ; that it were to 
combrousand to long to putten it in scripture of Bokes. 
Mandemlle, Travels, p. 272. 
Of that scripture, 
Be as be may, I make of it no cure. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 1144. 
(M) An inscription or superscription ; a motto or legend ; 
the posy of a ring, or the like. 
Pleyynge entrechangeden hire rynges, 
Of which I can noght tellen no scripture. 
Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch. Coleridge, Christabel, I. 
SCritch 2 (skrich), n. [< ME. "scrich, < AS. aerie, or ourculios. These scrobes may be directed straight 
a thrush : see shrike^. Cf. scritch-owl, screccii- forward, or upward or downward, and thus furnish char- 
owl.] Aihrush. 
scrithet, v. i. 
See screech, 3. [Prov. Eng.] acters much used in classifying such beetles. (6) A 
[E. dial, also scride; < ME. sen- groove on the outer side of the mandible, more 
scrobiculee 
L asmooth 
stride.] To stride ; move forward. Hampole, space surrounding a tubercle on the test of a 
Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 2, note 3. sea-urchin. 
scritoire(skri-twor'),re. A variant of escritoire, scrobicular (skro-bik'u-lar), a. < scrobtcula 
I willthataconvenyentstoonof marbill andaflatfygure, 
aftyr the facion of an armyd man, be made and gravyn in 
the seyd stoon in laton in memoryall of my fadyr, John 
Fastolf, . . . with a scripture aboute the stoon makynge 
mencion of the day and yeer of hise obite. 
Pastmi Letters, I. 454. 
lus, iii. 1369. scrivanot, n. [< It. scrivano, a writer, clerk: see + -arS.] Pertaining to or surrounded by scro- 
scriven.] A writer; clerk; one who keeps ac- biculse, as tubercles on a sea-urchin, 
counts. Scrobicularia (skro-bik-u-la'ri-a), n. [NL., < 
The captain gaue order that I should deliuer all my L. scrobiculus, a little ditch: see scrobiculus.] 
mony with the goods into the hands of the scriuano, or j n co ch., the typical genus of Scrobiculariidee; 
purser of the ship. HaHuyfs Voyages, II. 249. ag Armar i a . Schumacher, 1817. 
2. leap.] The books of the Old and New Tes- 
taments ; the Bible : used by way of eminence 
You do not know the quirks of a scrivano, 
A dash undoes a family, a point. 
^ ; ^ __ Shirley, The Brothers, Iv. 1. 
and distinction, and often in the plural pre- gcrive (skriv), v. t.; pret. and pp. scrived, ppr. 
ceded by the definite article; often also Holy scriving. [Avar, of scribe; cf. d-escrive, describe.] 
If. To write ; describe. 
How mankinde dooth bigynne 
Is wondir for to scryue so. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.X p. 58. 
Scrobicuiariidse (skr6-bik"u-la-ri'i-de), n. pi. 
[NL., < ScroUcularid + -.] A family of 
See Bible. 
by 
Scripture. 
Holy scryptour thus it seyth 
To the that arte of cristen feyth, 
" Yfle thou labour, thou muste ete 
That with thi hondes thou doyste gete." 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.X p. 19. 
Holy scriptur apekyth moche of thys Temple whiche 
war to longe to wryte for this purpose. 
Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travel!, p. 71. 
and the 
sheil"feiliniform with an 'external ligament and an in- 
ternal cartilage lodged in a special fossa below the um- 
bones. The species mostly inhabit warm or tropical seas. 
Scrobiadaria piperata is the well-known mud-hen of Eng- 
land They are sometimes called mvd-mactras. 
2. To draw (a line) with a pointed tool: same scrobicu i a te (skro-bik'u-lat), a. [< NL. "scro- 
as scribe, 2. biculatus, < L. scrobiculus, a little ditch or 
When the line's of the sections or frames are accurately trench : see scrobiculus.] In bot. and goal., fur- 
drawn, they are scratched or Kriwdin by a sharp-pointed ^^ of p . tted . having gmall pits or f urrows ; 
HUseripture is given by inspiration of God, and is prof- ' j , , - ,v- jT V j iT : ! ; specifically, in entom., having well-defined deep 
itable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for mstruc- scriVO-board (sknv bord), n In shtp-bmMmg, ^ roun< jed depressions which are larger than 
tion in righteousness. 2 Tim. iii. 16. num ber of planks clamped edge to edge toge- . . . 
3. A passage or quotation from the Scriptures ; v i ous iy outlined. 
a Bible text. scrivello (skri-vel'6), n. [Origin obscure.] 
How dost thou understand the Scripture? The Scrip- An elephant's tusk of less than 20 pounds in 
ture says "Adam digged." Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. 41. weignt- Imp. Diet. 
4. [cop.] Any sacred writing or book: as, a gcrivent (skriv'n), H. [< ME. "scriven, serin hi 
catena of Buddhist Scriptures. 
Most men do not know that any nation but the Hebrews 
have had a scripture. Thoreau, Walden, p. 116. 
Canonical Scriptures. See canonical books, under ca- 
nonical. 
II. a. leap.] Relating to the Bible or the 
Scriptures; scriptural: as, "Scripture history," 
Locke. 
Why are Scripture maxims put upon us, without taking 
notice of Scripture examples? Bp. Atterbury. scr j vell t (skriv'n), V. t. and i. 
scriptured (skrip'turd), a. [< scripture + -ed%.] 
Engraved; covered with writing. [Bare.] 
Those scriptured flanks it cannot see. 
D. O. Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh. 
Scripture-reader (skrip'tur -re *der), n. An 
evangelist of a minor grade'who reads the Bible 
in the houses of the poor and ignorant, in hospi- 
tals, barracks, etc. 
scripturewort (skrip'tur-wert), . Same as let- 
ter-Uchen. 
scripturian (skrip-tu'ri-an), H. [< scripture + 
-i'lii.] A Biblical scholar; a scripturist. [Rare.] 
Flo. Cursed be he that maketh debate 'twixt man and wife. 
(-11). [NL., < L. scrobiculus, a little ditch or 
trench, dim. of scrobis, scrobs, a ditch, trench: 
see scrobe.] In anat., a pit or depression; a 
fossa Scrobiculus cordis, the pit of the stomach: 
same as anticardium. 
.. , pret. and pp. scrodded, ppr. 
xcrodcliny. [A var. of shred or shroud^ (AS. 
-*screddan = MD. schrooden, etc.): see shred, 
shroud?.] To shred ; prepare for cooking by 
tearing in small pieces : as, scrodded fish. 
scrod (skrod), u. [< scrod, v.] 1. Scrodded 
fish, or a dish prepared by scrodding fish- 
2. A young codfish, especially one that is split 
and fried or boiled. [New Eng.] 
Scrod is the name for a young codfish split and pre- 
pared for boiling. Amer. Angler, XVII. 333. 
Le. Oh, rare scripturian! you have scaled up my lips. 
Chapiiinn. Huiimrniis Day's Mirth. 
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__' ' , . -, ,-. .. ' TI niiiuc **o wnnvwrwi 
< OF. escnvmn,F. ecnvam = Sp. esmbano = Pg. scro a (skrod), v. t. ; 
escrivSo = It. scrivano, < ML. scribanus, a writer, 
notary,clerk(cf.L.scn'6a,a scribe), < It.scribere, 
write: see scribe. Hence scrivener. The word 
scrioen survives in the surname Scriven.] A 
writer ; a notary. 
Thise scriueyns . . . sseweth guode lettre ate gtnnynge, 
and efterward maketh wycked. 
AyenWe of Inutyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 44. 
rivent ^KI-IV u), v. t. and i. [< scriven, n. ; or 
< scrivener, regarded as formed with suffix -er 1 
from a verb: see scrivener.] To write; espe- 
cially, to write with the expansive wordiness SCrodgllJ 
irwverr^ 10118 CharaCteristlC f 8CriVenerS r ho^h ti? & bb together and the 
Here 's a mortgage scrivened up to ten skins of parch- points Projecting at right angles, to be dragged 
merit and the king's attorney general is content with six or jerked through the water; a pull-devil, 
lines. Roger North, Lord Guilford, II. 30-2. (Dames.) sCTOdgill (skrod'gil), V. t. [< scrodgitl, n.] To 
Iso take or catch with a scrodgill. 
scrofula (skrof'u-lii), . [Formerly errone- 
ously scrophula. also scrofules, scrophules, < F. 
scrofules. pi., = Sp. rserdfulo = Pg. eserofitlas = 
It. 'scrofula, xcrtifolit = G. skrofeln = Sw. Dan. 
skroflei; pi., scrofula, < L. scrofnlse, pi., scrofu- 
lous swellings, scrofula; perhaps so called from 
x/.-rirenere, with superfluous siiffix -ere (E. -er 1 , 
-er 2 ) (a.smiiiHi<-iiiii<'r,jxirixlii<>iier,etc.),< m-rir- 
. ;i notary: see scriven. Hence the surnames 
Si-rirciu-r. Xi-iihncr.] 1. A writer ; especially, 
;i puiilic- writer; a notary; specifically, one 
