Word Meanings - HIGHERCRITICISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Criticism which includes the study of the contents, literary character, date, authorship, etc., of any writing; as, the higher criticism of the Pentateuch. Called also historical criticism. The comparison of the Hebrew and Greek texts . . . introduces us to a series of questions affecting the composition, the editing, and the collection of the sacred books. This class of questions forms the special subject of the branch of critical science which is usually distinguished from the verbal criticism of the text by the name of higher, or historical, criticism. W. Robertson Smith.

• Edituate
  To guard as a churchwarden does.
• SUBJECTMATTER
  The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science makes
• Branchiostegal
  Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes.
• Sacramentalism
  The doctrine and use of sacraments; attachment of excessive importance to sacraments.
• Callet
  A trull or prostitute; a scold or gossip.
• Sacrificatory
  Offering sacrifice.
• Callithump
  A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.
• Sacrosciatic
  Of or pertaining to both the sacrum and the hip; as, the sacrosciatic foramina formed by the sacrosciatic ligaments which connect the sacrum and the hip bone.
• Characteristical
  Characteristic.
• Specialism
  Devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism.
• Classicality
  Alt. of Classicalness
• Subjective
  Of or pertaining to a subject.
• Classman
  A member of a class; a classmate.
• Affectionated
  Disposed; inclined.
• Distinguishably
  So as to be distinguished.
• Writhle
  To wrinkle.
• Branches
  of Branch

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