sacran.

1819 S. Fleming Sherburne's Misc. Poems p. xiii The poems are of a miscellaneous description: some being amatory, which the Author styles Erotica;..and others of a graver cast, to which he applies the titles of Ethica and Sacra.

1903 J. E. Harrison Proleg. Study Greek Relig. iv. 126 Probably on this day the magical sacra lay upon the altars where the women placed them.

1903 J. E. Harrison Proleg. Study Greek Relig. iv. 132 Special cakes..were provided for them, but whether to eat or to carry as sacra does not appear.

1945 Mind 54 77 The contemplation of sacra gives rise to motor attitudes—shouting, prancing, rolling on the earth—which are no doubt in the first instance self-expressive.

1959 Listener 14 May 853/2 Plato..included the sacra in his concept of play.

1964 V. W. Turner Forest of Symbols (1967) iv. 102 In the Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries of Athens, sacra consisted of a bone, top, ball, tambourine, apples, mirror, fan, and woolly fleece.