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Concordances
Thompson Chain Reference
• Sacred Vessels
• Sacred Places
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Vail, the Sacred
• Anointing, Sacred
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Vessels, Sacred
• Sacred Vessels
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Pole (Sacred)
Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
• Junilius, Quaestor of the Sacred Palace
King James Dictionary
• Sacred
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Vessels, Sacred
• Species, Sacred
• Sons of the Sacred Heart of Verona
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Sacred
Webster Dictionary
• Sacring
• Sacred
• Sacre
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Sacred Heart
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Shekel of the Sanctuary; Sacred Shekel
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Ablution of the Sacred Vessels
• Animals, Sacred.
• Antiquities, Sacred
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Sacred Wars
• Sacring-Bell
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Brothers of the Sacred Heart
• Congregation of the Retreat of the Sacred Heart
• Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and of the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Groves and Sacred Trees
• Vessels, Sacred
Lexicons
Berry's NT Synonyms
• Holy, Sacred, Pure
Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Sanctify, Sacred, Holy
• ἱερός
• πρόθεσις , πρόσθεσις
• מִקְדָּשׁ
• קֹדֶשׁ
Trench's NT Synonyms
• Sacred

SA'CRED, a. L. sacer, sacred, holy, cursed, damnable. We here see the connection between sacredness and secrecy. The sense is removed or separated from that which is common, vulgar, polluted, or open, public and accursed is separated from society or the privileges of citizens, rejected, banished.

1. Holy pertaining to God or to his worship separated from common secular uses and consecrated to God and his service as a sacred place a sacred day a sacred feast sacred service sacred orders.

2. Proceeding from God and containing religious precepts as the sacred books of the Old and New Testament.

3. Narrating or writing facts respecting God and holy things as a sacred historian.

4. Relating to religion or the worship of God used for religious purposes as sacred songs sacred music sacred history.

5. Consecrated dedicated devoted with to.

A temple sacred to the queen of love.

6. Entitled to reverence venerable.

Poet and saint to thee alone were given, the two most sacred names of earth and heav'n.

7. Inviolable, as if appropriated to a superior being as sacred honor or promise.

Secrets of marriage still are sacred held.

Sacred majesty. In this title, sacred has no definite meaning, or it is blasphemy.

Sacred place, in the law, is that where a deceased person is buried.