Tuesday, February 20, 2007

WORD A DAY

HOLY WRIT: often capitalized 1: Bible 2: a writing or utterance having unquestionable authority

"Holy writ" has been used in English as a term for the Bible for more than a thousand years. The term traces to the Venerable Bede, an eight-century Anglo-Saxon scholar, historian, and theologian who wrote a history of Engliand in which he dated events from the birth of Christ. Bede's history was translated from Latin to English around the year 900, and it is in that translated text that we find the earliest evidence for "holy writ." Shakespeare later used "holy writ" in Othello. And Alexander Pope used it in his Wife of Bath.
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