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Definition of "pericope" [pe•ric•o•pe]

  • An extract or selection from a book, especially a reading from a Scripture that forms part of a church service. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "pericope" in a sentence
  • "This is an interpretation that fits with the overall point of this pericope."
  • "This pericope in Ezra also tells us, there can be no Gospel without the Blues."
  • "It is important and it will come, and is a weakness I need to address, but I have other inclinations, can live with the ambiguities being pretty happily focused on a little portion; so much so that I even have the fault of sometimes failing to look ahead of my weekly pericope."