a. [f. L. transcript-us transcribed, after scriptural.] = TRANSCRIPTIONAL.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), III. 223. Chains of written evidence in the form of transcriptural evidence. Ibid., V. IX. VI. ii. 516. Whether, provisionally at least, inferior evidence may not be employed…: transcriptural, for instance, instead of original.
1863. Westcott, in Smith’s Dict. Bible, II. 517/2, note. Two characteristic transcriptural errors occur in the passage.
