Sacred

sa'kred, a. Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; esp., in a good sense, made holy; apart to religious use; relating to religion, or to services of religion; po e ing the highest title respect, reverence, or veneration; not to be profaned or violated; consecrated; dedicated; holy; divine; reverend. — Sac'rifice, -rT-fiz, v. t. [-ficed (-fizd), -ficing.] To make an offering of; to consecrate present, by way of expiation or propitiation, or token of acknowledgment or thanksgiving, to some divinity; to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to kill. — To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar. — f is or -fiz, n. The offering of anything to God or to agod; anything consecrated and offered to a divinity; destruction or surrender of anything made for the sake of something else thing so given up. — Sac'rift'cial, -fisb/al, a. lating to, concerned with, or consisting in, sacrifice. — Sac'rilege.-rY-le.v/i. The crime of violating or faning sacred things. — Sacrile'gio us, -lCjus, a. sun, cube, full; moon, fo~6t; cow, oil; olating sacred things; involving sacrilege; profane; the impious. — Sac'ristan, now contr. Sex'ton, n. An officer of the church who has the care of its utensils or or movables. — Sac'risty, -tT, n. An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; vestry. — Sac'rament, n. (Theol.) One of the solemn religious ordinances enjoined by Christ to be observed by his followers; eucharist. [Protestants apply the term sacrament to baptism and the Lord's Supper, esp. the latter: the Romish and Greek churches have 5 other sacraments, viz., confirmation, penance, holy orders, matrimony, and extreme uncthe tion.] — Sacramenfal, a. Belonging, relating to, or constituting a sacrament; sacredly binding; bound by a sacrament. — Sac'ramenta'rian, -ment'ary, -ari, a. Pert, to the sacraments. — Sacerdo'tal, sas-erdo'tal, a. Pert, to priests, or to the order of priests; priestly. — Sa'crum, w. {Anat.) The triangular bone which forms the posterior part of the pelvis.