Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Originally p. p. of OE. sacren, to consecrate, F. sacrer, fr. L. sacrare, fr. sacer, sacred, holy, cursed. Cf. Consecrate Execrate Saint Sexton
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
O. Fr. sacrer—L. sacrāre—L. sacer, sacred.
In literature:
An altar, on which the sacred fire burned perpetually, rose in the centre.
"Museum of Antiquity" by L. W. Yaggy
Any work which is inculcated in the sacred books is both sacred and useful in the scheme of redemption.
"India, Its Life and Thought" by John P. Jones
The Russian people are very religious and Moscow is their sacred city.
"Birdseye Views of Far Lands" by James T. Nichols
The bull was sacred in many places, and his worship underlay that of the human gods, who were said to be incarnated in him.
"The Religion of Ancient Egypt" by W. M. Flinders Petrie
Only a superstitious dread restrained it from laying hands upon them in a shrine so sacred and venerated.
"Byzantine Churches in Constantinople" by Alexander Van Millingen
I do not mean that the Buddha of the sacred books and the Buddha of the Burman's belief are different persons.
"The Soul of a People" by H. Fielding
The Sacred Music Society was formed in New York City in 1823 and lasted till 1849.
"Annals of Music in America" by Henry Charles Lahee
He had by heart all the laws of the sacred books; he was an adept in the inmost mysteries of the religion.
"The Cat of Bubastes" by G. A. Henty
In various Semitic lands there are also sacred streams and sacred caves.
"History of Religion" by Allan Menzies
Her head bent lower over the sacred bowl, but she made no lines.
"The Flute of the Gods" by Marah Ellis Ryan
***
In poetry:
Guards and shields thee not
With a sacred might,
Holy altar forms,
Deeds of glory bright?
"To Russia" by Ivan Nikitin
O gladsome light
Of the Father Immortal,
And of the celestial
Sacred and blessed
Jesus, our Saviour!
"The Golden Legend: II. A Farm In The Odenwald" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A warrior and a child
Pass'd through the sacred wood,
Which, like a mystery,
Around the temple stood.
"Hannibal's Oath" by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
"Oh! sacred be her memory,
For ever dear her name;
There never was nor ere can be
A brighter juster dame.
"The Viceroy. A Ballad." by Matthew Prior
"Within the dying ashes
I blow the sacred spark,
And make the hearts of lovers
To leap against the dark."II
"Earth Voices" by Bliss William Carman
Then shall I hear the sentence,
"You did it not to me,"
Come from the sacred Teacher
Who taught in Gallilee.
"The Future" by Jared Barhite
In news:
This week on our Global Notes segment we're heading to Fés , Morocco, site of the 18th edition of the Sacred Music Festival.
The Fès Festival of World Sacred Music.
Joe Fiedler Trio Sacred Chrome Orb.
For OSF's Sister Judith Ann Duvall, health care is foremost 'a sacred ministry'.
After earning degrees from Newton College of the Sacred Heart, Georgetown University and Fordham University, she taught French at John Jay High School for six years.
Sacred Crossroads will sponsor Witchy Weekend Saturday and Sunday at Unitarian Universalist Congregagtion, 520 Kanawha Blvd W. Activities get under way with the Psychic Fair from noon to 5 pm Saturday.
Round up the sacred cows.
Formerly of Spencer, will be conducted at 10:30 am Saturday, Sept 15, 2012, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Spencer.
Kashmiri Indian Hindu pilgrims journey to sacred Amarnath cave.
For some yoga practitioners, the body is a sacred vessel that should not be tainted.
Bywater Art Lofts II, Placido Domingo , Stained Glass in Sacred Places, Danny Driver.
This wasn't pot paranoia, but a snapshot from back in the mid-'90s, long before the rise of your neighborhood marijuana dispensaries, when a man's stash was sacred and not so easily replaced.
The tiny girl came through the night and now is at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane.
Cedar Fields in Power County is an area considered sacred to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes.
Design is dead, the material world's sacred monster, Philippe Starck, announced to a German magazine a few weeks ago, citing all the "unnecessary" things he had created in the course of his 40-year career.
***
In science:
The authors wish to extend special thanks to those of Hawaiian ancestry on whose sacred mountain we are privileged to be guests.
Dynamics of the Globular Cluster System Associated with M49 (NGC4472): Cluster Orbital Properties and the Distribution of Dark Matter
Of course, there is nothing sacred in the constant ‘5’ on the RHS of (4.5); any other constant does the job as well.
Random complex zeroes, II. Perturbed lattice
Finally the authors wish to extend thanks to those of Hawaiian ancestry on whose sacred mountain of Mauna Kea we are privileged to guests.
A Long-Period Jupiter-Mass Planet Orbiting the Nearby M Dwarf GJ849
Ils ne savent pas ce qu’ils perdent Tous ces sacr´es cabotins.
A Cylcotomic Investigation of the Fermat - Catalan Equation
The model of black hole states as field theory states around a stretched horizon gets the entropy right, but there is no sacred principle which tells us that anything else about it is correct.
Holographic Space-Time Does Not Predict Firewalls
***