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Sacred

adjective

Concerned with religion or religious purposes. "Sacred rites" , "Sacred music" Antonym: profane.

Worthy of respect or dedication.

Made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use. Synonyms: consecrated, sanctified. "The sacred mosque" , "Sacred elephants" , "Sacred bread and wine" , "Sanctified wine"

Worthy of religious veneration. Synonym: hallowed. "Jerusalem's hallowed soil"

(often followed by 'to') devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person. "A morning hour sacred to study" , "A private office sacred to the President"

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... 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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