sacred
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sacred /ˈseɪkrɪd/
▶adjective
- 1 connected with a deity and so deserving veneration; holy.
■ (of writing or text) embodying the doctrines of a religion.
■ sacrosanct.
- 2 religious rather than secular.
– derivatives
sacredly adverb,
sacredness noun.
sacredly adverb,
sacredness noun.
– origin ME: past part. of archaic sacre ‘consecrate’, from OFr. sacrer, from L. sacrare, from sacer, sacr- ‘holy’.
'sacred' also found in these Oxford entries:
ablution
- Adi Granth
- Avesta
- Ayurveda
- blaspheme
- blasphemy
- bo tree
- bullroarer
- canon
- cascara
- catlinite
- champak
- chant
- chapel
- churinga
- cist
- consecrate
- corroboree
- deconsecrate
- defile
- desacralize
- desecrate
- deuterocanonical
- divine
- Genizah
- Granthi
- Hebrew Bible
- hierarch
- hiero-
- hieroglyphic
- hierogram
- hierophant
- Hippocrene
- Holy City
- holy of holies
- Holy Writ
- hom
- ineffable
- June
- Kaaba
- Koran
- lotus
- motet
- mullah
- obsecration
- om
- oratorio
- pilgrim
- profane
- psalm
