Vocabulary
Words used in Origin of the Bible that I didn't know.
- Aphorism - a pithy observation that contains a general truth; a concise statement of a scientific principle, typically by an ancient classical author
- Aphoristic - Terse and witty and like a maxim
- Apostrophe - a literary device in which the speaker addresses either an absent person or a non-human object, idea, or being and is commonly found in plays and poems.
- Conciliate - stop (someone) from being angry or discontented; placate; pacify; (archaic) gain (esteem or goodwill).
- Copula - a connecting word, in particular a form of the verb be connecting a subject and complement.
- Corpus - a collection of written texts, especially the entire works of a particular author or a body of writing on a particular subject.
- Correspondence - a close similarity, connection, or equivalence; communication by exchanging letters, emails, or other messages.
- Doctrinaire - seeking to impose a doctrine in all circumstances without regard to practical considerations.
- Explicable - able to be accounted for or understood.
- Explicate - analyze and develop an idea or principle in detail
- Gnosis - knowledge of spiritual mysteries
- Imprimatur - an official license by the Roman Catholic Church to print an ecclesiastical or religious book; a person's acceptance or guarantee that something is of a good standard.
- Impugn - dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of (a statement or motive); call into question.
- Inimical - tending to obstruct or harm.
- Inroads - progress; an advance; a hostile attack; a raid
- Interpolation - the insertion of something of a different nature into something else; a remark interjected in a conversation.
- Milieu - a person's social environment
- Narrative - a spoken or written account of connected events; a story
- Plenary - (of a meeting) to be attended by all participants at a conference or assembly, who otherwise meet in smaller groups; unqualified; absolute; a meeting or session attended by all participants at a conference or assembly.
- Polemicist - a person who engages in controversial debate.
- Presbyter - (historical) an elder or minister of the Christian Church between bishop and deacon; (Presbyterian Churches) an elder; a minister of the second order, under the authority of a bishop; a priest
- Presupposition - a thing tacitly assumed beforehand at the beginning of a line of argument or course of action.
- Recalcitrant - having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline.
- Replete - filled or well-supplied with something; very full of or sated by food
- Repudiate - refuse to accept or be associated with; deny the truth or validity of; refuse to fulfill or discharge (an agreement, obligation, or debt).
- Spurious - fake
- Theopneusty - the force or process of divine inspiration; the power by which the Holy Spirit reveals truth to men.
- Watershed Issue - an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend