| 释义 |
sacralize, v. Anthrop.|ˈsækrəlaɪz|
[f. sacral a.2 + -ize, after F. sacraliser (see quot. 1899).]
To endow with sacred significance (freq. through ritual); to set apart from ordinary life or use as sacred.
[1899Hubert & Mauss in l'Année Sociologique III. 215 Pour employer la terminologie que nous voudrions faire admettre: ils se sacralisent et, en même temps, désacralisent pour les autres l'espèce totémique.] 1933E. E. Evans-Pritchard in Ess. Social Anthropol. (1962) vii. 134 Exchange of blood in such situations [sc. blood-brotherhood] sacralizes and endows with sanctions a politico-economic transaction. 1957V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in an Afr. Society x. 294 In the past doctors drove the uninitiated away..from areas in the bush which they had sacralized for ritual purposes. 1967Listener 11 May 616/3 In spite of his call to sacralize secularity, there is little expectation of transcendence here. 1972S. Tugwell Did you receive Spirit? ix. 75 It is only where action and contemplation have become secularised (or sacralised, for that matter..), that any contradiction appears.
Add: Hence ˈsacralized ppl. a.
1979J. Halifax Shamanic Voices (1980) i. 21 Matsúwa,..fiercely beckoning individuals..to the sacralized ground before him. 1986P. B. Clarke Black Paradise vi. 81 Rastafarians also present themselves..as a chosen race, along the same lines as the Jews; this, some may argue, is simply a sacralized form of racism. |