bibler noun5 •One given to quoting the bible; a bible-thumper.So in respect of this particular opposition, in the ones reiecting, the others vrging of traditions, the sadduces were termed […] Biblers, or Scripturists . — 1626 •A student at a boarding school who has the job of reading from the bible during meals.But now I pray you let us hearken to the Scripture, for the bibler is not yet come to Tu autem. — 1814 •(slang) 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.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. — 1883 •(offensive, no longer used) A protestant.There credence and their language was alike, All Babel-biblers they did dead dislike. — 2007 •(no longer used) A great drinker; a tippler.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. — 1889 formsbiblers
