a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Of or pertaining to the ELOHIST; characterized by the use of ELOHIM instead of Yahveh: see prec.
1841. Ryland, Hengstenberg on Pentat. (1847), I. 331. In some passages of the Elohistic part of the narrative, ELOHIM must stand under all circumstances.
1863. Johannes Laicus, Anti-Colenso, II. iii. 233. The Jehovistic passages, taken by themselves,… require the Elohistic story to connect them with each other.
1881. W. Robertson Smith, Old Test. in Jewish Ch., vii. 197. The Elohistic collection [of psalms] … was formed after the time of Ezra.
