Scripture \Scrip"ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. scriptura, fr. scribere, scriptum, to write: cf. OF. escripture, escriture, F. ['e]criture. See Scribe.]

1. Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.

I have put it in scripture and in remembrance. --Chaucer.

Then the Lord of Manny read the scripture on the tomb, the which was in Latin. --Ld. Berners.

2. The books of the Old and the new Testament, or of either of them; the Bible; -- used by way of eminence or distinction, and chiefly in the plural.

There is not any action a man ought to do, or to forbear, but the Scripture will give him a clear precept or prohibition for it. --South.

Compared with the knowledge which the Scripteres contain, every other subject of human inquiry is vanity. --Buckminster.

3. A passage from the Bible;; a text.

The devil can eite Scripture for his purpose. --Shak.

Hanging by the twined thread of one doubtful Scripture. --Milton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)