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Definition of biblical adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

biblical

adjective
 
/ˈbɪblɪkl/
 
/ˈbɪblɪkl/
(also Biblical)
Idioms
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  1. connected with the Bible; in the Bible
    • biblical scholarship/times/scenes
    • biblical stories/passages
    Topics Religion and festivalsc2
  2. very great; on a large scale
    • a thunderstorm of biblical proportions
Idioms
know somebody in the biblical sense
  1. (humorous) to have had sex with somebody
    • He had known her—but not in the biblical sense.
See biblical in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
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