单词 | desecrate |
释义 | desecrateadj. rare. = desecrated adj. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrilege > [adjective] > treated as not sacred unsacred1652 desecrateda1711 desecrate1873 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > irreverence > [adjective] > not reverenced > desecrated or profaned profaned?1440 violate1555 desecrateda1711 desecrate1873 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 62 Than that her dignity be desecrate By neighbourhood of vulgar table. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020). desecratev. a. transitive. To take away its consecrated or sacred character from (anything); to treat as not sacred or hallowed; to profane. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrilege > cause sacrilege [verb (transitive)] defoulc1384 profanea1425 depravea1529 defile1535 unhallow1535 profanate1554 execratea1572 profanizate1578 sacrilege1578 unconsecrate1598 exaugurate1600 defoil1601 dishallow1624 desecrate1675 disenhallow1846 profanizea1876 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > irreverence > have or show no reverence for [verb (transitive)] > profane violate1490 profane1563 temerate1635 desecrate1675 1675 L. Addison Present State Jews 190 (T.) The desecrating hands of the enemy. a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) iii. 98 If we do venture to swear..upon any slight or vain..occasion; we then desecrate Swearing, and are guilty of profaning a most sacred Ordinance. [Not in Phillips, Cocker, Kersey.] 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Desecrate, to defile or unhallow. 1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. vi. 416 What Licinia had dedicated..could not be considered as sacred: so that the Senate injoined the Prætor to see it desecrated and to efface whatever had been inscribed upon it. 1776 Bp. G. Horne Comm. Bk. Psalms I. (lxxiv. 7) 324 When the soul sinks under a temptation, the ‘dwelling place of God's name is desecrated to the ground’. 1837 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (ed. 2) III. xxi. 333 More plausibly even might we desecrate Sunday. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 204 The..vessels of the Temple..were desecrated by being employed in idol-worship. b. To divert from a sacred to a profane purpose; to dedicate or devote to something evil. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > make wicked or evil > devote to something evil desecrate1825 1825 Blackwood's Mag. 18 156 With a libation of unmixed water..did he devote us to the infernal gods—or..desecrate us to the Furies. 1849 J. Stephen Ess. Eccl. Biogr. (1850) I. 312 Particular spots..were desecrated to Satan. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 76 Desecrating to false worship the place which had been consecrated by the revelation of the true God. c. To dismiss or degrade from holy orders. archaic. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > unfrocking > unfrock [verb (transitive)] unhodeOE disordain1297 disgradec1380 degrade1395 deprivec1400 inhibit1531 disorder1570 disbishop1585 defrock1600 uncassock1645 desecrate1674 unfrockify1694 unclergy1695 undignify1702 unordain1709 unfrock?a1750 disfrock1877 disgown1887 ungown1895 1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4) Desecrate, to discharge of his orders, to degrade. 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Desecrate, degrade, discharge from holy Orders. c1800 W. Tooke Hist. Russia in Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) The [Russian] clergy can not suffer corporal punishment without being previously desecrated. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < adj.1873v.1674 |
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