sacred
(adjective) (often followed by âtoâ) devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person; âa fund sacred to charityâ; âa morning hour sacred to studyâ; âa private office sacred to the Presidentâ
consecrated, sacred, sanctified
(adjective) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use; âa consecrated churchâ; âthe sacred mosqueâ; âsacred elephantsâ; âsacred bread and wineâ; âsanctified wineâ
hallowed, sacred
(adjective) worthy of religious veneration; âthe sacred name of Jesusâ; âJerusalemâs hallowed soilâ
sacred
(adjective) concerned with religion or religious purposes; âsacred textsâ; âsacred ritesâ; âsacred musicâ
sacred
(adjective) worthy of respect or dedication; âsaw motherhood as womanâs sacred callingâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sacred (comparative more sacred or sacreder, superlative most sacred or sacredest)
Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy.
Synonyms: consecrated, hallowed
Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular
Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics.
Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
Not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.
Synonyms: inviolable, sacrosanct
(followed by the preposition "to") Consecrated; dedicated; devoted
Synonym: consecrated
(archaic) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.
• divine
• godly
• holy
• cursed
• damned
• profane
• unholy
• ungodly
sacred
simple past tense and past participle of sacre
• Cerdas, Dacres, Des Arc, caders, cadres, cedars, crased, decars, e-cards, ecards, scared
Source: Wiktionary
Sa"cred, a. Etym: [Originally p.p. of OE. sacren to consecrate, F. sacrer, fr. L. sacrare, fr. sacer sacred, holy, cursed. Cf. Consecrate, Execrate, Saint, Sextion.]
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. Milton.
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. Shak. Poet and saint to thee alone were given, The two most sacred names of earth and heaven. Cowley.
4. Hence, not to be profaned or violated; inviolable. Secrets of marriage still are sacred held. Dryden.
5. Consecrated; dedicated; devoted; -- with to. A temple, sacred to the queen oflove. Dryden.
6. Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful. [Archaic] But, to destruction sacred and devote. Milton.
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. (Zoöl.) See Hamadryas.
– Sacred bean (Bot.), a seed of the Oriental lotus (Nelumbo speciosa or Nelimbium speciosum), a plant resembling a water lily; also, the plant itself. See Lotus.
– Sacred beetle (Zoöl.) See Scarab.
– Sacred canon. See Canon, n., 3.
– Sacred fish (Zoöl.), any one of fresh-water African fishes of the family MormyridĂŠ. Several large species inhabit the Nile and were considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians; especially Mormyris oxyrhynchus.
– Sacred ibis. See Ibis.
– Sacred monkey. (Zoöl.) (a) Any Asiatic monkey of the genus Semnopitchecus, regarded as sacred by the Hindoos; especially, the entellus. See Entellus. (b) The sacred baboon. See Hamadryas. (c) The blunder monkey.
– Sacred place (Civil Law), the place where a deceased person is buried.
Syn.
– Holy; divine; hallowed; consecrated; dedicated; devoted; religious; venerable; reverend.
– Sa"cred*ly, adv.
– Sa"cred*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 December 2024
(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
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