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Sacred   /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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"Sacred" Quotes from Famous Books



... been launched upon the world—the first organized protest against the injustice which had brooded for ages over the character and destiny of one-half of the race. No words could express our astonishment on finding a few days afterward that what seemed to us so timely, so rational and so sacred should be a subject for sarcasm and ridicule in the entire press of the nation. The anti-slavery papers alone ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper
... induced him to see whether the Madonna with the swords in her heart, which, at the time of his departure, had adorned the Ark, the great house at the corner of the Haidplatz, had met with the same fate, and this sacred witness of former days had likewise been sacrificed to the iconoclasm of the followers of the new Protestant faith. This also grieved him, and urged him to go from street to street, from church to church, from monastery to monastery, from one of the chapels ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... A pottery meal basket used in religious ceremonies and dances; shown in fig. 703. Although differing materially from the Zuni sacred meal baskets, yet, as is shown in the figure, the pyramidal elevations on ...
— Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880 • James Stevenson
... comparatively little importance in the eyes of these men, though doubtless they would take them also if they lay their hands on them. The bracelet, however, is of special interest to them, not so much for its intrinsic value, as because it was stolen from one of their sacred idols. ...
— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty
... from then on Nick does some scientific pumpin'. Not that I let out anything in so many words, but I'm afraid he got the idea that what I was after was something money couldn't buy. That is, not unless somebody violated a sacred amendment to the grand old constitution. In fact, I may have mentioned casually that a whole case of Gordon was worth riskin' ...
— Torchy As A Pa • Sewell Ford


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