sacrilegious
adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L340094 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /sæk.ɹəˈlɪd͡ʒ.əs/ / /sæk.ɹəˈlid͡ʒəs/
adj
Etymology: Compare sacrilege, Latin sacrilegus. From Latin sacer + legō (“steal something sacred”).
- Committing sacrilege; acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred.
“At one end of the room was spread a square carpet, and on it stood a table, on which were placed two most sacrilegious-looking wax-tapers: it is to be feared some poor sinner stayed longer in purgatory from the abduction of his offering.”