单词 | sacred way |
释义 | > as lemmassacred way sacred way n. a route used by religious processions, pilgrims, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > [noun] > used by pilgrims or processions sacred way1884 1884 A. Lang in M. Hunt tr. Grimm's Household Tales I. p. xiv Amber and jade and slaves were carried half across the world by the old trade-routes and sacred ways. 1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 883/2 The chain..of Aegaleos, through a depression in which was the line of the sacred way, where the torchlight processions from Athens used to descend to the coast. 1937 G. Mitchell Come away, Death i. 31 Now we go to Eleusis along the Sacred Way, to penetrate the meaning of the Mysteries. 1971 E. B. Garside & Wilkins tr. C. W. Ceram Gods, Graves & Scholars (ed. 2) xxiii. 292 The Sacred Way of Babylon ran..from the outer city walls to the Gate of Ishtar. < as lemmas |
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