The doctrine and use of sacraments; attachment of excessive importance to sacraments.

One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ's body and blood in the holy eucharist.

In a sacramental manner.

Of or pertaining a sacrament, or to the sacramentals; sacramental.

An ancient book of the Roman Catholic Church, written by Pope Gelasius, and revised, corrected, and abridged by St. Gregory, in which were contained the rites for Mass, the sacraments, the dedication of churches, and other ceremonies. There are several ancient books of the same kind in France and Germany.

To administer the sacraments.

A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity.

To consecrate.

Consecration.

To consecrate; to make sacred.

Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service.

Capable of being offered in sacrifice.

Employed in sacrifice.

One who offers a sacrifice.

A sacrificer; one who offers a sacrifice.

Offering sacrifice.

To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.

One who sacrifices.

Of or pertaining to sacrifice or sacrifices; consisting in sacrifice; performing sacrifice.

The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses.

Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious.

One guilty of sacrilege.

a. n. from Sacre.

A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books.

An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.

An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.

Sacred; inviolable.

Of or pertaining to both the sacrum and the hip; as, the sacrosciatic foramina formed by the sacrosciatic ligaments which connect the sacrum and the hip bone.

Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.

That part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part of, the pelvis.

A tribe of Indians, which, together with the Foxes, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin.

To make sorrowful; to sadden.

Seasonal affective disorder.

A work in the Persian tongue, being a summary of the Zend-Avesta, or sacred books.

To become, or be made, sad.

Same as Sadda.

To put a saddle upon; to equip (a beast) for riding.

Having the outline of the upper part concave like the seat of a saddle.

Shaped like a saddle. Bent down at the sides so as to give the upper part a rounded form.

Anything saddle-backed; esp., a hill or ridge having a concave outline at the top.

Bags, usually of leather, united by straps or a band, formerly much used by horseback riders to carry small articles, one bag hanging on each side.

The bow or arch in the front part of a saddle, or the pieces which form the front.

A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.

Having a broad patch of color across the back, like a saddle; saddle-backed.

One who makes saddles.

The materials for making saddles and harnesses; the articles usually offered for sale in a saddler's shop.

The frame of a saddle.

Pertaining to, or like, the Sadducees; as, Sadducaic reasonings.

One of a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels.

The tenets of the Sadducees.

To adopt the principles of the Sadducees.

A member of a monotheistic sect of Hindoos. Sadhs resemble the Quakers in many respects.

An iron for smoothing clothes; a flatiron.

Wearily; heavily; firmly.

Heaviness; firmness.

A plant of the genus Ziziphus (Ziziphus lotus); -- so called by the Arabs of Barbary, who use its berries for food. See Lotus (b).

A singers' union; an association of singers or singing clubs, esp. German.

A festival of singers; a German singing festival.

To render safe; to make right.

To conduct safely; to give safe-conduct to.

A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time.

To guard; to protect.

In a safe manner; danger, injury, loss, or evil consequences.

The quality or state of being safe; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or of a possession.

The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.

The safflower.

An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.

To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.

Having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish.

An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron. A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin. An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.

An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type.

State of sinking or bending; sagging.

A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.

Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.

The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.

The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank.

Sagapenum.

A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with. See also asafetida.

A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.

A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.

A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the order Compositae, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.

In a sage manner; wisely.

A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet.

The quality or state of being sage; wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity.

Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz.

Resembling sagenite; -- applied to quartz when containing acicular crystals of other minerals, most commonly rutile, also tourmaline, actinolite, and the like.

A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a seggar.

A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.

To make fat; to pamper.

The act of fattening or pampering.

A small constellation north of Aquila; the Arrow.

Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage.

The ninth of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about November 22, marked thus [/] in almanacs; the Archer. A zodiacal constellation, represented on maps and globes as a centaur shooting an arrow.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an arrow.

Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.

Sagittal; sagittate.

A defensive cell containing a minute rodlike structure which may be expelled. Such cells are found in certain Turbellaria.

A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick; also, as starch, for stiffening textile fabrics. It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees, but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu; also from several cycadaceous plants (Cycas revoluta, Zamia integrifolia, etc.).

A marmoset; -- called also sagouin.

The military cloak of the Roman soldiers.

A genus of palms from which sago is obtained.

Full of sage; seasoned with sage.

A respectful title or appellation given to Europeans of rank.

A lady; mistress.

Same as Thebaic.

See Salite.

A marmoset.

See Capuchin, 3 (a).

A European mountain trout (Salvelinus alpinus); -- called also Bavarian charr.

A kind of ketch very common in the Levant, which has neither topgallant sail nor mizzen topsail.

Before-mentioned; already spoken of or specified; aforesaid; -- used chiefly in legal style.

An antelope (Saiga Tartarica) native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears.

Same as Saker.

To pass or move upon, as in a ship, by means of sails; hence, to move or journey upon (the water) by means of steam or other force.

Capable of being sailed over; navigable; as, a sailable river.

A boat propelled by a sail or sails.

Duck or canvas used in making sails.

A sailor.

The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.) The basking, or liver, shark. The quillback.

The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage.