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Word Meanings - AMPLEXATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An embrace. An humble amplexation of those sacred feet. Bp. Hall.

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  • SACRILEGIOUS
    Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n.
  • SACRAL
    Of or pertaining to the sacrum; in the region of the sacrum.
  • SACROVERTEBRAL
    Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
  • SACRIFICANT
    One who offers a sacrifice.
  • SACRILEGE
    The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses. And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege
  • SACRIFICE
    1. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton. 2. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid
  • SACRIFIC; SACRIFICAL
    Employed in sacrifice. Johnson.
  • THOSE
    The plural of that. See That.
  • SACRAMENTALLY
    In a sacrament manner.
  • SACRAMENTALIST
    One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ;s body and blood in the holy eucharist. Shipley.
  • SACRED
    sacrer, fr. L. sacrare, fr. sacer sacred, holy, cursed. Cf. 1. Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred
  • SACRARIUM
    1. A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity. 2. The adytum of a temple. Gwilt. 3. In a Christian church, the sanctuary.
  • SACRATE
    To consecrate.
  • SACRIST
    A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books.
  • SACRIFICABLE
    Capable of being offered in sacrifice. Sir T. Browne.
  • SACRE
    See SAKKER
  • HUMBLER
    One who, or that which, humbles some one.
  • SACRAMENTAL
    1. Of or pertaining to a sacrament or the sacraments; of the nature of a sacrament; sacredly or solemny binding; as, sacramental rites or elements. 2. Bound by a sacrament. The sacramental host of God's elect. Cowper.
  • HUMBLE
    humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, 1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley. 2. Thinking
  • SACRO-
    A combining form denoting connection with, or relation to, the sacrum, as in sacro-coccyageal, sacro-iliac, sacrosciatic.
  • UNSACRAMENT
    To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism.
  • SPATHOSE
    See SPATHIC
  • TRISACRAMENTARIAN
    One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.
  • THUMBLESS
    Without a thumb. Darwin.
  • DISACRYL
    A white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein.

 

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