V. be impious &c adj., profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff; swear &c (malediction) 908; commit sacrilege. snuffle; turn up the whites of the eyes; idolize.

Could Norway's priest-despising chief, deem sacrilege a crime Fitting for absolution,or dark penance of set time That daring such all dreaded sin, he gazes on the grave, And tramples o'er the hallow'd dust of canoniz'd Olave.

sing the song once more, Which ne'er for mortal ear was made. 'Twere almost sacrilege to sing Those notes amid the glare of day; Notes borne by angels' purest wing, And wafted by their breath away.

The Inquisition, at least, did not proceed against the Jews, but against the Judaizers; that is, against those who, after being converted to Christianity, relapsed into their errors, and added sacrilege to their apostasy by the external profession of a creed which they detested in secret, and which they profaned by the exercise of their old religion.

For a young fellow of a Puritan education in those days to be angry with his father was somewhat that seemed to him as awful a sacrilege as to be angry with his God, and yet he felt that his father had been bitterly, cruelly unjust towards him.

But my heart could not bear this sacrilege.

Then, in sudden rebellion, in a sudden reversion, monstrous ideas were born in him, fancies concerning those sacrileges warned against by the manual of the Father confessors, of the scandalous, impure desecration of holy water and sacred oil.

To banish her from my thoughts I should consider sacrilege; and, even if I wished, I could not perform the resolution.

My people discovered the sacrilege, and"he added with intent"gave that Greek the bowstring, then quartered the body and threw it to the vultures.

Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

To pray that the ashes of a friend may lie undisturbed, and that the divinities that favoured him in his life may watch for ever round him, to preserve his tomb from violation, and drive sacrilege away, is only rational in him who believes the soul interested in the repose of the body, and the powers which he invokes for its protection able to preserve it.

But they are destitute of imagination, and do not lie; in their passion for realities they would esteem it a sacrilege to distort history.

The abomination of it all, the vengeance of destiny which exacted this sacrilege, filled her with such a feeling of revolt that at the moment when vertigo was about to seize her and the flooring began to flee from beneath her feet, she was lashed by it and kept erect.

Curse, and Belsaye shall out-curse thee; laugh, and Belsaye laugheth at thee" "Sacrilege!" gasped the Prior, "O 'tis base sacrilege!

[Magnus, King of Norway, having committed sacrilege, by opening the grave of St. Olave, he was commanded by the spirit of the offended saint to perform the voluntary penance of quitting the kingdom in thirty days.

As the young lord turned to him, Lady Constancecrushed and brokensaid, "Couldst thou not see why I have so misused my better self; have thine eyes been blind all these years not to see how I have loved thee, Cedrictheetheewith all my heart and soul?" "I would not hear thee prate of anything so sacred as love,'tis sacrilege.

mea istaec Ps. parricida B. perge tu Ps. sacrilege.

But yet some way of escape there must be, and desperately she sought it, striving in defence of that nameless thing that had sprung to such wild life within her under the burning pressure of his lips, that strange and untamed force that she could neither bind nor subdue, but which to suffer him to behold meant sacrilege to her shrinking soulsuch sacrilege as she believed she could never face and live.

Initials are no longer sacred, and the great T.P. will become Toc Pip O'Connor, unless some Emma Pip introduces a Bill to prevent the sacrilege.

Even if we found her and brought her here he would not receive her; he would be as angry as if you were proposing some sacrilege to him.

Innocent old Scharnhoff, who is an honest thiefhe wouldn't steal money sacrilege is Scharnhoff's passionwas an easy mark for Noureddin Ali.

A watchman stayed beside it, to ward off sacrilege: anyone who desired could come, and couldif his nerves were strong enoughview the body and state if, indeed, it was that of the foreigner who all through last summer had haunted the woods and park of Acol.

" She raised her hand a little; the thought seemed to bring her to the verge of trembling, as though he were asking a sacrilege.

I hope there is not a man breathing who could attempt a sacrilege so detestable.

He wrote on a tablet that he had taken off his official cap when opening his veins, so as to avoid the sacrilege of a flamen of Jupiter dying with it on his head.