SACRED  神靈

SUPERNATURAL in ORIGIN AND THEREFORE OF DIVINE ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY AND POWER.
HOLYSAINTLYGODLYSAINTLIKEPIOUSPIETISTICRELIGIOUSDEVOUTGOD-FEARINGSPIRITUALRIGHTEOUSGOODVIRTUOUSANGELICSINLESSPURENUMINOUSBEATIFICCANONIZEDBEATIFIEDORDAINEDRELIGIOUSHOLYSACREDSANCTIFIEDCONSECRATEDBLESSEDDEVOTIONAL.DIVINE
Antonym
Hypernym
  • SUPERNATURALOBSCURE, NOT ORDINARY, AND BELIEVED TO HAVE BIG POWER, AND which one CAN NOT PERCEIVE.
    • OBSCUREDARK so as to be DIFFICULT to SEE, DIFFICULT to UNDERSTAND OR STRANGE to THINK of.
      • DARKCOLOUR LACKING BRIGHTNESS.
        • COLOURAPPEARANCE of SURFACES which REFLECT OR ISSUE LIGHT, PERCEIVED USING the EYES....
See also
Hyponym
Modern Chinese Criteria
高尚

高貴

崇高



神聖

高風亮節

<div>rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /</div><div><br></div><div>GREEK KEYWORDS</div><div>άγιος a (Ion. η) ον adj. [reltd. αγνός] 1 (of places, objects<br>and activities assoc.w. the gods or their worship) holy,<br>sacred, venerable Simon. Hdt. Ar. Isoc. PL X. +<br>2 (of birds, envisaged as deities) holy Ar.<br>3 (of one’s homeland) hallowed, revered PL; (of that which<br>is perfectly real) PL; (of particular legal matters) sacred,<br>solemn PL D.<br>4 (of God, Jesus, the Spirit, persons, places or things<br>assoc.w. God and His worship) holy NT.<br>—άγίως adv. reverently Isoc.<br></div><div><br></div><div>αγνός ή (dial, α) όν, Aeol. αγνός ά ον adj. [reltd. άγιος,<br>άζομαι] 1 (of female deities) deserving reverence, reverend,<br>holy Od. Hes. hHom. Archil. Lyr. A. +; (of male deities) Stesich.<br>A. Pi.; (of heroes) Pi.fr.<br>2 (of a shrine, enclosure, grove, altar, other places<br>frequented by the gods) venerable, sacred Hes.(dub.)<br>hHom. Lyr. A. E.<br>3 (of sacrifices, rites, festivals, other things assoc.w. the<br>gods or their worship) hallowed, holy Od. Xenoph. Lyr. Trag.<br>Ar. Call.<br>4 (of rivers, springs, their waters) sacred, holy, pure Simon.<br>A. Pi. .; (of E.fr streams of fire) Pi.; (of light) Pi.fr. S.<br>5 (of a mother’s womb) sacrosanct A.; (of an oath) sacred E.<br>6 respectful of the gods or free from religious impurity; (of<br>a person) pious, reverent or pure Lyr. A. E. Theoc.epigr.;<br>(w.ACC. in hand, mind) E.; (of a life) E./r.; (of lips, speech) A.<br>7 (specif.) free from blood-guilt; (of a person) without taint<br>S. E.; (w.gen. of murder) PL; (of hands, w.gen. of blood) E.<br>8 (of bloodless sacrifices) pure Pl.<br>9 free from sexual impurity; (of a woman) pure Ar. Plu.;<br>(w.acc. in body) E.; (of a man or woman, their body, w.gen.<br>of sex) E. Men.; (of animals and birds) PL; (of spiritual<br>friendship) X.<br>f 10 (of the body of a person fasting) not sullied by food, pure<br>E.<br>11 (of a cow) not sullied by yoking, pure A.<br>12 not entailing impurity (for another); (in neg.phr., of a<br>person) not a source of pollution (w.dat. to one’s killer) E.;<br>(of a place, w.inf. to walk in) S.<br></div><br>

  • De differentiis ( DIFFERENTIAE I) p. 33

    SACRUM, RELIGIOSUM, SANCTUM

    341. Vid. Fest., dict. Religiosus, et Macrob. lib. III Saturn., cap. 3.

    -- Soli, etc. F. Solisancti, duae sequentes dictiones [col. 46C] forte glossema.

    ]

    341. Inter Locum religiosum, et sacrum, et sanctum, quod sacrum vocamus, quod ad deos superos pertinet; religiosum, quod ad deos inferos; sanctum vero, quod aliqua sanctitate sanctum est, ut sunt tauri apud Homerum (.) soli sancti, sacri, sacrosancti.

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    HOLY

    sacer refers to that which is sacred insofar as it belongs to the gods and is not profanus.

    sanctus refers to what is sacred insofar as it is under the protection of the gods and thus guarded from profanation, and as a consequence, pure and spotless, not pollutus.

  • Traite elementaire des synonymes grecques ( DUFOUR 1910) p. 164

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 1966) p. 216

    heilige Berge, Tiere, Pflanzen:

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 1966) p. 219

    Kalenderpflanze:

  • Recherches sur l'expression du sacre dans la langue latine ( FUGIER 1963) p.

  • Semantica del Griego Antiguo ( HERNANDEZ 2000) p. 44n187

    Williger, Heiligen;

    Locher, Homer

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 4.483

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 4.504

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 3.1034

    HEILIG, HEILIGKEIT

  • Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

    HOLY, SACRED AND THE PROFANE, SACRED SPACE, SACRED TIME

  • Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology ( BARNARD AND SPENCER 2002) p.

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no. 11

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.268

  • A New Dictionary of Classical Greek Synonyms ( T.W.HARBSMEIER 2004) p. no. 11

  • New Dictiornary of the History of Ideas, 6 vols. ( HOROWITZ 2005) p.

Words

  míng OC: mraŋ MC: mɣaŋ 3 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vadNsacred, holy, of supernatural significance 明堂
  • vadVnuminously, in a supernaturally efficacious wayCH
  shèng OC: qhljeŋs MC: ɕiɛŋ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • vadNBuddh: sacred, holy

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