biblically

adv

1. (not-comparable)In a biblical manner.

   “Furthermore, what would otherwise be good points about the sort of selective literalism that renders homosexuality an unpardonable sin but shrugs off Sarah Palin’s biblically forbidden pearl earrings are lost in Eichenwald’s assumption that evangelicals make these decisions “with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch.””

2. (euphemistic, not-comparable)Carnally; in the biblical sense.

   “Most of them showed an intimate knowledge of the young blonde, leading Seth to the conclusion they had known her biblically.”

3. (figuratively, not-comparable)Very greatly; especially, exceeding previous records in scale.

   “He so fine, he got me down bad biblically.”

4. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of biblically.

   “He is now in practice, and must be past the midway point of the Biblically allotted span of man’s life.”

   ““We’re a Biblically illiterate community,” acknowledges the Rev. Randall Updegraff Spleth, the 34-year-old pastor of booming Geist Disciples of Christ Church in Indiana.”

   “Freyda had cursed her then, with a hatred so venomous, so long-stifled, so Biblically intense that she had immediately repressed the exact words her friend said.”

   “It [the number 17] has importance in both of the math realm and Biblically.”