Meaning of bibler | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A great drinker; a tippler.
   archaic
3. A protestant.
   archaic, derogatory, slang
4. A student at a boarding school who has the job of reading from the bible during meals.
5. A flogging of six cuts on the small of the back in which the bible clerk and ostiarius held up the culprit's shirt while a school official administered the flogging.
   slang
6. One given to quoting the bible; a bible-thumper.

Examples

“Mr. W. H. Cummings defends the character of Purcell from the remarks of Mr. J. F. Crowest, who in his anxiety to prove that wine has always stimulated music, makes Purcell a bibler.”

“Somehow the popular idealism pictures the bibler as a stout hearty individual of merry moods and good vigour, while the typical total-abstinence fanatic arises in our minds as one of colourless vitality and sombre physiognomy.”

“It was also said that the son was a bibler and the father a total abstainer.”

“What must have been thought of drunkenness during the reign of Tiberius may be inferred from the fact that this emperor, surnamed Biberius (the bibler), appointed Pison Prefect of Rome for having passed two days and nights with him at the drinking board, witnessing the feats of inglorious Novellius Torquatus, who was surnamed Tricongius from his ability to swallow three congii (about three quarts) of wine at one draught.”

“At a comparatively early period in the history of the school the tendency which within the last forty years abolished the First and Second Forms seems to have been in existence, no First Form figuring in the school list of 1678, in which its place is taken by the Bibler's seat —the Bibler being a boy deputed to read a portion of Scripture in the Hall during dinner.”

“as the Church-mens policy was great, so they forgot not to foresee a storm, in case Mary should depart without issue, and the Crown come to Elizabeth, who was, as the Germans called them, a Protestant, as the French, a Huguenot, or of the Religion, as the English, a Lollard, a Bibler, a Gospeller; wherefore there were many plots to take her away;”

“And bcause it greueth them that your subiectes be growen so farre in knowlege of theyr dewtye to God, to youre grace, & to theyr neghboures, theyr inwarde malyce doth breake oute in to blasphemous & vncomlye wordes, in so much that they cal your louynge & faythfull people, heretikes, new fangled fellowes, English biblers, coblers of diuinite, fellowes of the new fayth. &c . with such other vngodly sayenges.”

“There credence and their language was alike, All Babel-biblers they did dead dislike.”

“But now I pray you let us hearken to the Scripture, for the bibler is not yet come to Tu autem.”

“With his interpolation of sacred matter into that profane work, the author compares the treatment he experienced "at our commencement feasts and such-like, in Cambridge; that when we have been in the midst of some pleasant argument, suddenly the Bibler hath come, and with a loud and audible voice began with Incipit libri Deuteronomium, caput vicesimum tertium.”

“At table at every meal all shall diligently and attentively hear the Bible before and after dinner and supper, until the Master or his deputy shall tell the Bibler to end.”

“"That's a lie! if you don't tell me where you got these verses this instant, I'll give you a bibler." —A bibler, you must know, reader , has nothing whatever to do with the Holy Scriptures, but is a particularly severe flogging, attended by certain forms to give the punishment more solemnity.”

“If a boy were detected in a gross falsehood, besides undergoing a bibler, he had to "stand under the nail" for an hour or two previously.”

“"A bibler was supposed to imply an (in some degree) moral offence", a scourging implied nothing of the kind; the comparative frequency of biblers and of scourgings ("often vulgarized into scrubbings" ) was, T. A. Trollope supposed, as "one to a thousand".”

“So in respect of this particular opposition, in the ones reiecting, the others vrging of traditions, the sadduces were termed […] Biblers, or Scripturists .”

“Well—I ain't much of a Bibler, but I got th' Book in my outfit an' I like to read it.”

“Outside, a Bibler harassed me with pamphlets: Satan in Your Hairbrush was one, Satan in the Teapot, another.”

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