单词 | sacrilegious |
释义 | sacrilegiousadj. 1. Committing sacrilege; guilty of sacrilege. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrilege > [adjective] > committing sacrilege or sacrilegious sacrileging?1554 sacrilegious1582 unsacred1608 desecrating1675 profanatory1815 desecrativea1861 1582 Bible (Rheims) Acts xix. 37 These men being neither sacrilegious nor blaspheming your Goddess. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxiv. 14 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 95 Lord,..This sacrilegious seed Roote quickly out. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 102 Hee might without processe of condemnation bee killed as a sacrilegious person. 1696 A. de la Pryme Diary 10 Oct. (1870) App. 319 The wicked, sacrilegous, non-conformists. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. ii. 39 Reproving the sacrilegious mortal who thus dared to disturb their precincts. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. ix. 210 His conduct..contrasted..with the sacrilegious Iconoclast Leo. 1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire vii. 139 Leave the church lands in the grasp of sacrilegious spoilers. 2. Involving sacrilege. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrilege > [adjective] sacrilegious1624 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) i. ii. i. i. 35 The like happened to Brennus,..vpon such a sacrilegious occasion. 1674 Bp. S. Ward Case of Joram 1 The Sacrilegious and Bloody Martyrdom of our late most Excellent Sovereign. 1749 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Spirit Patriotism 11 A most sacrilegious breach of trust. 1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. lxiv. 275 He..repeated his sacrilegious devastations in the sanctuary of Apollo. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 403 Swend died just as he was about to wreak his sacrilegious wrath on Saint Eadmund's minister. Derivatives sacriˈlegiously adv. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrilege > [adverb] profanely1544 sacrilegiously1609 unsacredly1852 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 355 Then is he Sacrilegiously false. 1727 P. Longueville Hermit 223 Those Villains had most sacrilegiously rifled and ransack'd his Habitation. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. i. 10 In the centre of which..had been sacrilegiously placed an altar to Thor. sacriˈlegiousness n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrilege > [noun] > quality of being sacrilegious profaneness?1578 profanism1607 sacrilegiousness1727 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Sacrilegiousness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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