1763, "worship of books," frombiblio-"book" +-latry"worship of." Meaning "worship of the Bible" is from 1847. Related:Bibliolatrist;bibliolatrous. bibliology(n.) "book-lore," 1804, from Frenchbibliologie; seebiblio-+-logy. By 1871 as "Biblical literature." ...
the less said. We see and hear the world through Jonah’s eyes and ears because of the first-person narration. We know what he feels and thinks moment-by-moment, but there are no lengthy ruminations on the meaning of life. There is no angst-filled soul-searching. After the violent...
The word for Bible in most European languages comes from the plural of this word, biblia "books;" in other words, the original meaning was "The Books," referring to the various manuscripts that were combined to form the Bible. << The 100 Funniest Words in English ...
“They had a word for it in the army, when a girl gets a fellow that way, so he can’t see straight or hear right or know what he’s doing; and I thought it a lot of cock, or it only happened to drunks, and now I knew it was true and it had happened to me.” What ha...
The illustration of the well-meaning white girl trying to help but not listening is a lesson for anyone who hasn’t lived the life of the protagonists but thinks she knows best how to help. I looked at her, really looked at her, and I could tell she was sorry. I had never experience...
With Hemingway’s short stories, a lot of the meaning is found in between the lines, in the things that are unsaid and the things that are implied. Three Questionsby Leo Tolstoy This is a moral fable by Leo Tolstoy. There’s also a lovely and beautifully illustratedchildren’s book by ...
word-forming element meaning "book" or sometimes "Bible," from Greekbiblion"paper, scroll," also the ordinary word for "a book as a division of a larger work;" originally a diminutive ofbyblos"Egyptian papyrus." This is perhaps fromByblos, the Phoenician port from which Egyptian papyrus was...
" frombiblion"book" (seebiblio-) +thēkē"case, chest, sheath," from suffixed form of PIE root*dhe-"to set, put." Used of the Bible by Jerome and serving as the common Latin word for it untilBibliabegan to displace it 9c. (seeBible). The word was later reborrowed from French ...