单词 | sacrilege |
释义 | sacrilegen.1 1. a. The crime or sin of stealing or misappropriating what is consecrated to God's service. In ecclesiastical use, extended to include any kind of outrage on consecrated persons or things, and the violation of any obligation having a sacramental character, or recognized as under the special protection of the Church. Also, an instance of this offence.In medieval writings the classification of ‘sacrilege’ as a branch of avarice, which is based on the primary meaning of the term, is somewhat inconsistently combined with an enumeration of the varieties of sacrilege implying the wider sense explained above. Cf., e.g. Ayenbite pp. 40–41 Chaucer's Parson's Tale ⁋727–9. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrilege > [noun] sacrilegea1300 sacrilegyc1380 pollutiona1382 violation1461 profanation1536 dishallowing1562 exauguration1600 desecrationa1717 profanement1815 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun] > consecrated articles sacrilegea1300 a1300 Cursor Mundi 27840 O couaitise..cums..sacrilege, to reue or stele Of halud thing. a1300 Cursor Mundi 27946. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 8608 Þey þat haue cherches broke, And stole þo þynges þat were þer-ynne, ‘Sacrylage’ men calle þat synne. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. iv. 39 Many sacrilegis don in the temple. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 160 An-oþer is sacrilege, þat is, brekyng of þe sacrament of holy cherche. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Fii Some..for their pryde and sacrilege, god suffreth oftentymes to make an ende lyke as a beest. 1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 381 The stinke of their divelish sacriledge in robbing the Church. 1649 J. Howell Preheminence Parl. 9 Rufus (who came to such a disastrous end, as to be shot to death in lieu of a Buck for his sacriledges). 1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) VIII. 379 After this, adding sacrilege to profanation, he carried away the altar of perfumes. 1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. 239 In consideration of the sacrileges which the enemy committed..they were enlisting the peasantry. 1838 T. Arnold Hist. Rome (1846) I. xxi. 457 An unscrupulous sacrilege, which appropriated the very offerings to the Gods, so made, to his own individual uses. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost ix. 235 The very books that are used in the worship of God are Sacred. The man who steals them is guilty of sacrilege. b. spec. in popular use as a name for robbery from a church or other place of worship.The term is not technically used in English Law, though formerly special penalties were imposed for the offence. From the 17th cent. a robbery from a church has been regarded legally as a ‘larceny’ or a ‘burglary’ according to the circumstances. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > [noun] > robbing churches or holy places church-robbing1567 sacrilege1820 1820 John Bull 17 Dec. 8/2 Norwich.—Sacrilege is now very common, the churches of Carbrook and Eaton were broken into; out of the former the thieves stole all the plate, communion cloth and surplice. 1909 N.E.D. at Sacrilege Mod. newspaper, Sacrilege at Middleton. 2. transferred and figurative. The profanation of anything held sacred. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrilege > [noun] > profanation of anything held sacred sacrilege1390 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > irreverence > [noun] > desecration or profanation sacrilege1390 violation1461 violating1523 profaning1547 profanation1588 temeration1641 desecrationa1717 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 371 The cause why that he so doth Is forto stele an herte or tuo,..And as I seide it hier above, Al is that Sacrilege of love. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iv, in Wks. 267/1 That it is as Luther sayth, great sinne and sacrilege to go about to please god by good woorkes, and not by onely fayth. ?1548 tr. P. Viret Verie Familiare Expos. Art. Christian Faieth sig. Bjv That were a greate blasphemie & sacrilege to haue suche an opinion of God as to think that [etc.]. a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) v. 64 'Tis sacriledge to violate a wedlock, You rob too Templens. a1678 A. Marvell Appleton House 'T'were Sacrilege a man to admit To holy things, for heaven fit. 1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) IV. xix. 193 To kill a herald was, by the law of arms, sacrilege. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 204 Almost every stone..is a historical monument, which it would be sacrilege to remove or destroy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † sacrilegen.2 Obsolete exc. poetic. One who is guilty of sacrilege. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrilege > [noun] > one who commits sacrilegerc1380 defouler14.. sacrilegea1492 violator1533 defiler1551 profaner?1552 sacrilegist1621 desecrator1879 a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xl. f. lxiv/2 Yf ony defaylled there that hadde not ben atte theyr laste seruyce, They were reputed and holden as Sacryleges. 1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 74 They bewray themselues..to be theues and sacrileges. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxxiii. 155 He was aswel condemned to death, as if he had bin a murtherer, or sacriledge. 1802 W. S. Landor Poetry 7 Thrown prostrate on the earth, the Sacrilege Rais'd up his head astounded. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2021). sacrilegev. rare. transitive. To commit sacrilege upon. 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 1578 J. Florio Firste Fruites f. 73 The ende of warre is this,..churches are profanizated and sacrileged. 1778 Hist. Eliza Warwick I. 10 Lord Huntley will not be tempted to sacrilege the temple—to storm a convent. 1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Metamorphoses 92 Thou didst rend Pentheus, and him thy rites who sacrileged Lycurgus. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrilege > [adjective] > committing sacrilege or sacrilegious sacrileging?1554 sacrilegious1582 unsacred1608 desecrating1675 profanatory1815 desecrativea1861 ?1554 tr. H. Latimer Protestation in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. ii. xxxiv. 92 Wherfor stande from the Aulter you sacrileginge (I shulde have said you sacrificinge) Preistes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1a1300n.2a1492v.?1554 |
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