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/sˈeɪkrəd/ /sˈeɪkrɪd/ Listen

adjective

Sacred adj.

1.

Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service.

2.

Relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular; religious; as, sacred history. "Smit with the love of sacred song."

3.

Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable. "Such neighbor nearness to our sacred (royal) blood Should nothing privilege him." "Poet and saint to thee alone were given, The two most sacred names of earth and heaven."

4.

Hence, not to be profaned or violated; inviolable. "Secrets of marriage still are sacred held."

5.

Consecrated; dedicated; devoted; with to. "A temple, sacred to the queen of love."

6.

Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful. (Archaic) "But, to destruction sacred and devote."

Society of the Sacred Heart (R.C. Ch.), a religious order of women, founded in France in 1800, and approved in 1826. It was introduced into America in 1817. The members of the order devote themselves to the higher branches of female education.

Sacred baboon. (Zool.) See Hamadryas.

Sacred bean (Bot.), a seed of the Oriental lotus (Nelumbo speciosa or Nelumbium speciosum), a plant resembling a water lily; also, the plant itself. See Lotus.

Sacred beetle (Zool.) See Scarab.

Sacred canon. See Canon, n., 3.

Sacred fish (Zool.), any one of numerous species of fresh-water African fishes of the family Mormyridae. Several large species inhabit the Nile and were considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians; especially Mormyrus oxyrhynchus.

Sacred ibis. See Ibis.

Sacred monkey. (Zool.)

(a)

Any Asiatic monkey of the genus Semnopithecus, regarded as sacred by the Hindoos; especially, the entellus. See Entellus.

(b)

The sacred baboon. See Hamadryas.

(c)

The bhunder, or rhesus monkey.

Sacred place (Civil Law), the place where a deceased person is buried.

Synonyms: Holy; divine; hallowed; consecrated; dedicated; devoted; religious; venerable; reverend.

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Etymology of 'Sacred'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sacred" Quotes from Famous Books

... churches we will ask this question: "How can a man who conscientiously believes in religious liberty worship a God who does not?" They say to us: "We will not imprison you on account of your belief, but our God will. We will not burn you because you throw away the sacred scriptures; but their Author will," "We think it an infamous crime to persecute our brethren for opinion's sake; but the God whom we ignorantly worship will on that account damn his own children forever." Why is it that these Christians ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I • Robert Green Ingersoll

... dutiful and loyal subjects," and further "enjoyed all the blessings of the best Government the wisdom of man ever devised, we have seen with indignation, the malignant breath of disappointed faction, by prostituting the sacred sounds of liberty, too successful in blowing the sparks of a temporary discontent into the flames of a rebellion in your Majesty's Colonies, that we from our souls abhor;" and they desired to be applied "such forcive remedies to the affected parts, as ...

— An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America • J. P. MacLean

... interesting to the antiquarian and the devotee; there were the great masterpieces which were the joint admiration of the artist and the vulgar. Even all the sides and slopes of the great rock were honeycombed into sacred grottos, with their altars and their gods, or studded with votive monuments. All these lesser things are fallen away and gone; the sacred eaves are filled with rubbish, and desecrated with worse than neglect. The grotto of Pan and Apollo is ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Vol VIII - Italy and Greece, Part Two • Various

... word Gentile usually denotes and includes the non-Jewish nations and people. The Hebrew word goyim, in early Bible history, was equivalent to our word nation. It finally began to denote any people who were not of the sacred seed of Abraham. The Greek word so rendered is ethnos, which means a multitude or nation. In the New Testament another word is sometimes used in a more limited sense—namely, hellenes, which is translated Greeks. Ignorance of these three parties, their place in Providence, ...

— The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 • Joseph Wild

... primeval innocence they thought no harm of being clad only with nature's covering." The description of the gorgeous hospitality extended to these treacherous invaders is absolutely touching in the light of our subsequent knowledge. They reared no sacred temples, nor did they seem to worship idols, and yet some few antiquities have been preserved which would seem to indicate that the natives possessed grotesque images, half human and half animal, like Chinese gods in effect. These were wrought so rudely out of stone as hardly to convey any ...

— Due South or Cuba Past and Present • Maturin M. Ballou

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