Word Meanings - HALIDOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary; -- used chiefly in oaths. So God me help and halidom. Piers Plowman. By my halidom, I was fast asleep. Shak. 2. Holy doom; the Last Day. Shipley.

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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.
• 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
• 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.
• SACRO-
  A combining form denoting connection with, or relation to, the sacrum, as in sacro-coccyageal, sacro-iliac, sacrosciatic.
• ASLEEP
  1. In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant. Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton. 2. In the sleep of the grave; dead. Concerning them which are asleep . . . sorrow not, even as others which have
• SANCTITY
  1. The state or quality of being sacred or holy; holiness; saintliness; moral purity; godliness. To sanctity she made no pretense, and, indeed, narrowly escaped the imputation of irreligion. Macaulay. 2. Sacredness; solemnity; inviolability;
• SACRAMENTALISM
  The doctrine and use of sacraments; attashment of excessive importance to sacraments.
• UNSACRAMENT
  To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism.
• TRISACRAMENTARIAN
  One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.
• MELANCHOLINESS
  The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell.
• DISACRYL
  A white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein.