Word Meanings - ZEND-AVESTA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The sacred writings of the ancient Persian religion, attributed to Zoroaster, but chiefly of a later date. (more info) its zend, or interpretation, in a more modern and intelligible
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- 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. - MODERN
1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon. 2. New and common; - LATERAN
The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed - 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. - ATTRIBUTABLE
Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker. - SACRIFICANT
One who offers a sacrifice. - LATERAL
Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation - 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 - SACRE
See SAKKER - ATTRIBUTIVE
Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute. - 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. - LATERALLY
By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side. - 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. - LATER
A brick or tile. Knight. - RELIGION
A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion. Trench. A good man was there of religion. Chaucer. 4. Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined - SACRED
sacrer, fr. L. sacrare, fr. sacer sacred, holy, cursed. Cf. 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 - SACRARIUM
1. A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity. 2. The adytum of a temple. Gwilt. 3. In a Christian church, the sanctuary. - 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. - CORRELIGIONIST
A co-religion - SLATER
One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.