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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'

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"Sacred" Quotes from Famous Books

... of hearts had for years treasured a friendship and, in spite of everything, could not pluck it out. Now he had opened that heart to an utter stranger, trusting him as if snatching at every chance to save his sacred ideals, shrinking from inflicting pain himself as a surgeon would shrink from operating on his own father. Mark's heart went out to the weeping man ...

— Charred Wood • Myles Muredach

... unrestricted discussion. There is no objection to using the schoolhouse for the purpose, but ordinarily it is not adapted to the purposes of an assembly-room. The meeting-house may serve the purpose, but to many persons it seems a desecration of a sacred building, and except in the case of a single community church there is too much of the denominational flavor about it to make it an unrestricted forum. Ideally there should be a community house erected at a convenient location, and large enough to accommodate as many as might ...

— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe

... supposed to have proceeded from such Authors, so it entered very properly into the Thoughts of that Being, who is all along describ'd as aspiring to the Majesty of his Maker. Such Engines were the only Instruments he could have made use of to imitate those Thunders, that in all Poetry, both sacred and profane, are represented as the Arms of the Almighty. The tearing up the Hills, was not altogether so daring a Thought as the former. We are, in some measure, prepared for such an Incident by the Description of the Giants ...

— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... Baal of Lebanon is mentioned in an archaic Phoenician inscription, and the name "Holy Cape" (Rosh- Qodshu), borne in the time of Thutmosis III. either by Haifa or by a neighbouring town, proves that Carmel was held sacred as far back as the Egyptian epoch. ...

— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12) • G. Maspero

... burning song,—but there is something, perhaps, more dreamily enchanting still,—to hear them warbling less passionately but more plaintively, beneath the drooping leafage of those grand old trees, some of which may have stretched their branches in shadowy benediction over the sacred head of the grandest poet in the world. Why travel to Athens,—why wander among the Ionian Isles for love of the classic ground? Surely, though the clear-brained old Greeks were the founders of all noble literature, they have reached their fulminating point in the English ...

— Thelma • Marie Corelli

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