Dictionary: SCRIP'TUR-IST – SCRU-PU-LOS'I-TY

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SCRIP'TUR-IST, n.

One well versed in the Scriptures. Newcombe.

SCRIV'EN-ER, n. [W. ysgrivenwr, from ysgrivenu, to write, It. scrivano; Fr. ecrivain. See Scribe.]

  1. A writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or other writings. Encyc.
  2. One whose business is to place money at interest. Dryden.

SCRO-BIC'U-LATE, a.1 [L. scrobiculus.]

Furrowed. – Smith.

SCRO-BIC'U-LATE, a.2 [L. scrobs.]

Having little pits or hollows. [1841 Addenda only.]

SCROF'U-LA, n. [L. In G. kropf is crop, craw, and scrofula. In D. it is kropzeer, neck-sore.]

A disease capable of affecting various parts, but which, when seated in glands, is manifested by indolent enlargement, sometimes suppurating imperfectly or ulcerating; ulcer healing with difficulty. It is more properly called struma. The popular name king's-evil is applied to this disease only when it is seated in glands.

SCROF'U-LOUS, a.

  1. Pertaining to scrofula, or partaking of its nature; as, scrofulous tumors; a scrofulous habit of body.
  2. Diseased or affected with scrofula. Scrofulous persons can never be duly nourished. Arbuthnot.

SCROF'U-LOUS-LY, adv.

In a scrofulous manner.

SCROLL, n. [probably formed from roll, or its root; Fr. ecroue, a contracted word, whence escrow.]

A roll of paper or parchment; or a writing formed into a roll. Here is the scroll of every man's name. – Shak. The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. – Is. xxxiv.

SCRO'TUM, n.

The bag which contains the testicles.

SCROYLE, n. [In Fr. ecrouelles, the king's evil; or D. shraal, thin, lean, meager.]

A mean fellow; a wretch. [Not in use.] – Shak.

SCRUB, n.

  1. A mean fellow; one that labors hard and lives meanly.
  2. Something small and mean. No little scrub joint shall come on my board. – Swift.
  3. A worn out brash. – Ainsworth.

SCRUB, v.i.

To be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.

SCRUB, v.t. [Sw. skrubba, to scrub, to rebuke; Dan. skrubber. D. schrobben; G. schrubben. This word is probably formed on rub, or its root, and perhaps scrape, L. scribo, may be from the same radix; Ir. scriobam.]

To rub hard, either with the hand or with a cloth or an instrument; usually, to rub hard with a brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning, scouring or making bright; as, to scrub a floor; to scrub a deck; to scrub vessels of brass or other metal.

SCRUB'BED, or SCRUBBY, a.

Small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubbed boy; a scrubby cur; a scrubby tree. Shak. Swift.

SCRUB'BED, pp.

Rubbed hard.

SCRUB'BING, ppr.

Rubbing hard.

SCRUF, n. [for Scurf, not in use.]

SCRU'PLE, n. [Fr. scrupule, from L. scrupulus, a doubt; scrupulum, the third part of a dram, from scrupus, a chessman; probably a piece, a small thing, from scraping, like scrap. Scrupulus was primarily a little stone or piece of gravel; and as one of such in a shoe hurts the foot, it is supposed that this, like a short stop or flinching, gave rise to the sense of doubting, which gives pain. Encyc.]

  1. Doubt; hesitation from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; backwardness; reluctance to decide or to act. A man of fashionable honor makes no scruple to take another's life, or expose his own. He has no scruples of conscience, or he despises them.
  2. A weight of twenty grains, the third part of a dram.
  3. Proverbially, a very small quantity.
  4. In Chaldean chronology, the 1/1080 part of an hour; a division of time used by the Jews, Arabs, &c. – Encyc. Scruple of half duration, an arch of the moon's orbit, which the moon's center describes from the beginning of an eclipse to the middle. Scruples of immersion or incidence, an arch of the moon's orbit, which her center describes from the beginning of the eclipse to the time when its center falls into the shadow. Scruples of emersion, an arch of the moon's orbit, which her center describes in the time from the first emersion of the moon's limb to the end of the eclipse. Encyc.

SCRU'PLE, v.i.

To doubt; to hesitate. He scrupl'd not to eat, / Against his better knowledge. – Milton.

SCRU'PLE, v.t.

To doubt; to hesitate to believe; to question; as, to scruple the truth or accuracy of an account or calculation.

SCRU'PLED, pp.

Doubted; questioned.

SCRU'PLER, n.

A doubter; one who hesitates.

SCRU'PLING, ppr.

Doubting; hesitating; questioning.

SCRU'PU-LIZE, v.t.

To perplex with scruples of conscience.

SCRU-PU-LOS'I-TY, n. [L. scrupulositas.]

  1. The quality or state of being scrupulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting some difficult point, or proceeding from the difficulty or delicacy of determining how to act; hence, the caution or tenderness arising from the fear of doing wrong or offending. The first sacrilege is looked upon with some horror; but when they have once made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retires. – Decay of Piety.
  2. Nicety of doubt; or nice regard to exactness and propriety. So careful, even to scrupulosity, were they to keep their sabbath. – South.
  3. Niceness; preciseness. – Johnson.