that is in accorance with the prescriptions of, taught by or agreeable to the scriptures; conformable to the sacred texts.

characteristic of or derived from the literary and artistic standards, principles, and methods that are ancient and time-tested; classical.

designating or of a specified area or course of study that is or has been standard and traditionally authoritative, not new, recent, and experimental; classical.

of, characteristic of or like a style of music characterised by an emphasis on formal composition and performance; classical.

based on, using or in accordance with, the principles and methods of science; systematic and exact; scientific.

designating the method of research in which a hypothesis, formulated after systematic, objective collection of data, is tested empirically; scientific.

done according to methods gained by systematic training; scientific.