Sacrilegious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sacrilegious \Sac`ri*le"gious\, a. [From sacrilege: cf. L.
     sacrilegus.]
     Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving
     sacrilege; profane; impious.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Above the reach of sacrilegious hands.   --Pope.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Sac`ri*le"gious*ly}, adv. --
     {Sac`ri*le"gious*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sacrilegious
       adj : grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred;
             "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane
             utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to
             enter with shoes on" [syn: {blasphemous}, {profane}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "sacrilegious":
     aberrant, abnormal, abominable, apostate, atheistic, atrocious,
     backsliding, blasphemous, criminal, delinquent, deviant,
     disgraceful, disrespectful, evil, fallen, fallen from grace,
     hardly the thing, heretical, ignominious, illegal, impious,
     improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous,
     irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, not done, not the thing, off-base,
     off-color, out-of-line, profanatory, profane, recidivist,
     recidivistic, recreant, renegade, scandalous, shameful, shameless,
     sinful, terrible, undue, undutiful, unfit, unfitting, ungodly,
     unlawful, unrighteous, unseemly, unsuitable, wicked, wrong,
     wrongful