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Sacraments
- noun - a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction
Sacred Cow
- noun - a person unreasonably held to be immune to criticism
Sacred Fig
- noun - fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists
Sacredness
- noun - the quality of being sacred
Sacrificed
- verb - endure the loss of; "He gave his life for his children"; "I gave two sons to the war"
- kill or destroy; "The animals were sacrificed after the experiment"; "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment"
- make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals
- sell at a loss
Sacrificer
- noun - a religious person who offers up a sacrifice
Sacrifices
- noun - (baseball) an out that advances the base runners
- a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value; "he had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice"
- endure the loss of; "He gave his life for his children"; "I gave two sons to the war"
- kill or destroy; "The animals were sacrificed after the experiment"; "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment"
- make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals
- personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)
- sell at a loss
- the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
- the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
Sacrileges
- noun - blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath"
- Defiling the sacred
- religious violation
Sacristans
- noun - an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects