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Definition of Sacrilegious
1. Adjective. Grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred. "It is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on"
Similar to: Irreverent
Derivative terms: Blasphemy, Profaneness, Sacrilege, Sacrilegiousness
Definition of Sacrilegious
1. a. Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious.
Definition of Sacrilegious
1. Adjective. Committing sacrilege. ¹
2. Adjective. Acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sacrilegious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sacrilegious
Literary usage of Sacrilegious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1836)
"... his vengeance upon those sacrilegious wretches, for the sake of religion in
general, how false and idolatrous soever that particular religion was, ..."
2. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin, John Allen (1816)
"The Papal Mass not only a sacrilegious Profanation of the Lord's Supper, but a
total Annihilation of it. W ITH these, and similar inventions, ..."
3. Haunted Houses: Tales of the Supernatural, with Some Account of Hereditary by Charles George Harper (1907)
"... in the vast majority of cases, overtook those sacrilegious beneficiaries.
Of late years, a new and extended edition of the book has been issued, ..."
4. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1830)
"The senate, being apprised of the affair, put a stop to those sacrilegious feasts
by the most severe penalties ; and first banished the practisers of them ..."
5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"sacrilegious is the hand that has dared to violate tho last wish of the Father
of his Country. ... sacrilegious ..."
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