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VERSE. 142 VERSE.
+ 3. A clause, sentence, or the like ; an article of
the Creed. Obs.
c looo ^LFRic Croiti, 1. (Z.) 201 Se |>ridda hattc distinctto
o^'be /cripdiTS, se belycd J^aet icrs [r.rr. faers, fyrsj. ciooo
•~- Pre/. Genesis (Grein) 23 Eft stynt on Jraere bee on J>am
fonnanferse: Et spiritus deiferebatursupcraquas. CI17S
Lamb. Horn. 75 pet rihte iieue setten t»c twelue apostles on
write,. .& ec of neom wrat iher of his uers^ & sancte peter
wrat J»et erestc Ibid. 77 We habbed bigunnen ou to
se^en on engHsch hwat biquel> J>e crede, _& habbeS ou
is«d twa uers. c 14*5 Wyntoun Cron. v. xL 3495 Sancte
lerome wrat til hym . . (7/e vifte, * LaudateDoniinum in Sanctis ejus';
and in euerichon beod vif vers, c xa9o S. Eng. Leg, I. 34
(He) seide ^os two vers of Jfe sauter. Ibid. 225 [Je foweles
sunge ek here matyns, . . & of )je sauter seide l>e uers. c I3a5
spec. Gy Wanv. 460 Sein Daui seil», if |>u wolt Joke In a
vers of J>e sauter boke [etc.]. 1377 Lancu /*. PL H. xii.
290 l>e glose graunteih vpon t>at vers [Ps. xxiii. 4J a gret
mede to treuthe. C1425 Wyntoun Cron. v. xi. 3508 Of be
psalm>'s distyntly pe la syde sutde J>e fyrst werse say, pc
tol>ir ^ next werse ay Sulde begyn. c 1450 Ke^ule Susiris
Me/iou n'sses {igis) 103 pan t>e quere on ^at one syde s^chal
take his verse, & \>e Quere on l>at oJ>er syde schal take
ano)?er verse [of Ps. H]. 1508 Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. cxxx.
Wks. (1876) 208 It is also profytable for good & ryghtwyse
people ofte to reherse this verse [Ps. cxxx, 1] wherby they
may auoyde thegrete perylles of this wretched worlde. i^a6
Piigr. Per/. (W. de W. 1531) 163 b, Yf..for ony necessUe,
a psalme scape ony persone, or a lesson, or else y* they
omyt one verse or twayne.
b. One of the sections into which a chapter of
the Bible is divided. Freq. abbreviated as v.
The practice of dividing the chapters of the Bible into
verses, introduced by Stephanus in 1551, was adopted by
Whittingbam in his New Testament (1557) and followed in
the Geneva Bible (1560).
Chapter and verse: see Chapter sb. 10 b.
1560 Bible (Geneva) To Rdr., The argumentes bothe for
the booke and for the chapters with the nombre of the
verse are added. 16^3 Caryl Expos. Job 178 Verse 2 [of
ch. iii]...This verse is only a transition into the matter of
the next. 1678 Butler Hud. in. \\. 1170 One single Red-
Coat Sentinel .. could disperse Whole Troops, with Chapter
rais'd, and Verse. 1685 Baxter Pamphr. N. T. John viii. 3
The last Verse of the foregoing Chapter and the eleven first
Verses of this Chapter. 17*9 Law Serious C, i. 8 That
Religion., is to be found in almost every verse of Scripture.
1818 HoRNE Introd. Script. (1834) 1 1. 75 The verses into
which the New Testament is now divided. 1847 Kitto's
Cycl. Bibl. Lit. II. 909 note^ The twentieth verse of the
tenth chapter of Matthew. 1888 E. Aubot Crit, Ess, xx.
465 The first edition of the New Testament divided into
our present verses was printed by Robert Stephens at
Geneva in 1551.
Cotnb. 185s I. Taylor Resior. Belie/ {iZ$e) 186 A verseby-verse
commentary.
5. A small number of metrical lines so connected
by form or meaning as to constitute either a whole
in themselves or a unit in a longer composition ; a
stanza.
In quots-c 1340 and 1387 applied to elegiac and hexameter
couplets. In later use the pi. is sometimes not clearly distinct
from I b,
ctyASat. Kildare i. in E.E.P. (1862) 153 pis uers is
fill well iwro^t, hit is of wel furre y-bro^t. Ibid, iii, pis uers
is imakid wel of consonans and wowel. c 1340 Hampole Pr.
Consc. 246 Of Kis Saynt Bernard witnes bers And er fra four
wryten in bis vers. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 83 So
hit seme^ pat l>is vers wolde mene |>at Jjese feyned goddes
regnel»..in Chestre. i^z Douglas Pal. Hon. iii. xcii. In
laude of honour I wrait thir versis thre. 1573-80 Uaret
v^Afraws.v., Averse: acbarme: a prophesie, car;//