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Word Meanings - REVERENTIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe. "A reverential esteem of things sacred." South.
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- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - SERIOUS
1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting - SACRILEGIOUS
Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n. - GRAVES
The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves. - GRAVEDIGGER
See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves. - SOLEMNIZATION
The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage. - SOLEMNIZE
1. To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker. 2. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers - SACRAL
Of or pertaining to the sacrum; in the region of the sacrum. - SACROVERTEBRAL
Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle. - SOLEMN
Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2. Syn. -- Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious; - SACRIFICANT
One who offers a sacrifice. - REVERENTIALLY
In a reverential manner. - DEVOTIONALLY
In a devotional manner; toward devotion. - SACRILEGE
The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses. And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege - SOLEMNIZATE
To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony. Bp. Burnet. - SACRIFICE
1. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton. 2. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid - SACRIFIC; SACRIFICAL
Employed in sacrifice. Johnson. - SOLEMNLY
In a solemn manner; with gravity; seriously; formally. There in deaf murmurs solemnly are wise. Dryden. I do solemnly assure the reader. Swift. - SACRAMENTALLY
In a sacrament manner. - SACRAMENTALIST
One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ;s body and blood in the holy eucharist. Shipley. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - UNSACRAMENT
To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism. - TRISACRAMENTARIAN
One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament. - WILDGRAVE
A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott. - SPIRITUALIZE
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize - GRAVEL
A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.