Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sacrilegious"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sacrilegious \Sac`ri*le"gious\, a. [From sacrilege: cf. L.
sacrilegus.]
Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving
sacrilege; profane; impious.
Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. --Pope.
-- {Sac`ri*le"gious*ly}, adv. -- {Sac`ri*le"gious*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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