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sacrilegious, a.|sækrɪˈlɪdʒəs, sækrɪˈliːdʒəs|
[f. L. sacrilegi-um sacrilege n.1 + -ous.]
1. Committing sacrilege; guilty of sacrilege.
1582N.T. (Rhem.) Acts xix. 37 These men being neither sacrilegious nor blaspheming your Goddess. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxiv. iii, Lord,..This sacrilegious seed Roote quickly out. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 102 He might without processe of condemnation be killed as a sacrilegious person. 1696De la Pryme Diary (Surtees) 319 The wicked sacrilegous, non-conformists. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest ii, Reproving the sacrilegious mortal who thus dared to disturb their holy precincts. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. iv. viii. (1864) II. 422 His conduct..contrasted..with that of the sacrilegious Iconoclast Leo. 1864Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. xix. (1875) 341 Leave the church lands in the grasp of sacrilegious spoilers.
absol.1682Norris Hierocles 8 The Offerings which they hang up in the Temple, serve only to enrich the Sacrilegious.
2. Involving sacrilege.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. i. i. (1624) 35 The like happened to Brennus..vpon such a sacrilegious occasion. 1673–4Bp. Ward Case of Joram 1 The Sacrilegious and Bloody Martyrdom of our late most Excellent Sovereign. 1736Bolingbroke Patriot. (1749) 11 A most sacrilegious breach of trust. 1844Thirlwall Greece VIII. lxiv. 275 He..repeated his sacrilegious devastations in the sanctuary of Apollo. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) V. xxiv. 380 The practices introduced by Flambard..were deemed to be sacrilegious.
Hence sacriˈlegiously adv., sacriˈlegiousness.
1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 355 Then is he Sacrilegiously false. 1727Philip Quarll (1816) 66 Those villians had most sacrilegiously rifled and ransacked his habitation. 1727Bailey vol. II, Sacrilegiousness. 1848Lytton Harold i. i, In the center of which had been sacrilegiously placed an altar to Thor. |