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Definition of Sacred text
1. Noun. Writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity.
Generic synonyms: Piece Of Writing, Writing, Written Material
Specialized synonyms: Sacred Scripture, Scripture, Bible, Book, Christian Bible, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word, Word Of God, Paralipomenon, Testament, Evangel, Gospel, Gospels, Synoptic Gospels, Synoptics, Prayer, Service Book, Apocrypha, Sapiential Book, Wisdom Book, Wisdom Literature, Pseudepigrapha, Talmudic Literature, Veda, Vedic Literature, Mantra, Psalm
Specialized synonyms: Adi Granth, Granth, Granth Sahib, Avesta, Zend-avesta, Bhagavad-gita, Bhagavadgita, Gita, Mahabharata, Mahabharatam, Mahabharatum, Laws, Pentateuch, Torah, Torah, Hebrew Scripture, Tanach, Tanakh, Nebiim, Prophets, Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings, Book Of Mormon, Al-qur'an, Book, Koran, Quran, Gemara, Mishna, Mishnah, Upanishad, Psalm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sacred Text
Literary usage of Sacred text
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"could rentier their treatment of those portions of the sacred text more instructive
or edifying. Both kinds of Midrashim were at first preserved only orally ..."
2. The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Treatise on the by Percy Goetschius (1898)
"(d) The choice of secular, instead of sacred, text, will influence the character
of the musical conception, but none of the above details. ..."
3. A Philosophical Dictionaryby Voltaire by Voltaire (1843)
"... his " Ecclesiastes " had less of the doctrine of materialism than the original ;
and that lus " Song of Songs " was less indecent than the sacred text. ..."
4. The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1845)
"The ancient various readings of the sacred text,3 called Keri ... or else were
not then looked on as an authentic part of the sacred text; for had they then ..."
5. Conversations with Children on the Gospels by Amos Bronson Alcott (1837)
"Mission of Jesus, from the sacred text. — Significance of the Passover.— Conditions
of Soli-Insight —Intuition of Duty. — Aspiration after Holiness.— (. ..."
6. The Classical Journal (1824)
"... on the Authority of the Scriptures, of the Fathers, and of D. Heinsius and
Joseph Mede, without any Alteration or Interpolation of the sacred text. No. ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"could rentier their treatment of those portions of the sacred text more instructive
or edifying. Both kinds of Midrashim were at first preserved only orally ..."
8. The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Treatise on the by Percy Goetschius (1898)
"(d) The choice of secular, instead of sacred, text, will influence the character
of the musical conception, but none of the above details. ..."
9. A Philosophical Dictionaryby Voltaire by Voltaire (1843)
"... his " Ecclesiastes " had less of the doctrine of materialism than the original ;
and that lus " Song of Songs " was less indecent than the sacred text. ..."
10. The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1845)
"The ancient various readings of the sacred text,3 called Keri ... or else were
not then looked on as an authentic part of the sacred text; for had they then ..."
11. Conversations with Children on the Gospels by Amos Bronson Alcott (1837)
"Mission of Jesus, from the sacred text. — Significance of the Passover.— Conditions
of Soli-Insight —Intuition of Duty. — Aspiration after Holiness.— (. ..."
12. The Classical Journal (1824)
"... on the Authority of the Scriptures, of the Fathers, and of D. Heinsius and
Joseph Mede, without any Alteration or Interpolation of the sacred text. No. ..."
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