Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Very holy carcass not damaged ", 10 letters:
sacrosanct

Alternative clues for the word sacrosanct

Word definitions for sacrosanct in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sacrosanct \Sac"ro*sanct\, a. [L. sucrosanctus.] Sacred; inviolable. [R.] --Dr. H. More.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. must be kept sacred [syn: inviolable , inviolate ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"superlatively sacred or inviolable," c.1600, from Latin sacrosanctus "protected by religious sanction, consecrated with religious ceremonies," from sacro , ablative of sacrum "religious sanction" (from neuter singular of sacer "sacred") + sanctus , past ...

Usage examples of sacrosanct.

Nevertheless, science has progressed together with the ideology of scientific materialism that does embody a number of sacrosanct theories and a priori statements, namely the principles of objectivism, monism, universalism, reductionism, the closure principle, and physicalism.

Guild adamantly maintained should stay sacrosanct, untouched by human influence, uncontaminated by human presence.

Melbai had already warned me of the one most sacrosanct rule of the Bacchic societies: that no participant ever disclose to the uninvited what occurred inside the temple doors.

Some premedieval astrologer-astronomer had calculated wrongly and his mistakes had been made sacrosanct as Golden Numbers.

Her current husband, Sinon, accompanied her as she performed her final sacrosanct duty: initiating the children who would grow up to be the captains of the next generation.

Tradition and the oath taken were regarded as sacrosanct and determined the behavior of the officer corps.

Unless total disaster befell them, the documents would be safe there, for the medical pouch of a Healer was nearly as sacrosanct as a priest's person, and arcanely guarded as well.

So while the Chars wandered across northern China, seeking almost hopelessly for food, their house stood sacrosanct.

To begin with, the notion of dispersal and decentering can be sensed in the novel's supreme indifference to the categories of writing in which Japanese works have been habitually and rapidly placed, as though the author were intent on collapsing hitherto sacrosanct boundaries.

Thus, the same pious blowhards who love to prattle about the sacrosanct First Amendment when the speech at issue is obscene or treasonous are constantly issuing lunatic demands for regulation of America’s most dangerous Samizdat media: the World Wide Web.

Thus, the same pious blowhards who love to prattle about the sacrosanct First Amendment when the speech at issue is obscene or treasonous are constantly issuing lunatic demands for regulation of America's most dangerous Samizdat media: the World Wide Web.

But now with her son, Yuji, Nishitsu was calling into question her loyalty because of her sense of ninjo towards the son she had, until now, kept sacrosanct from her life within the Black Blade Society.

Men would pour in to the Center's so private, so secluded, so sacrosanct grounds fr om all over the city: men from many ethnic groups so it couldn't be blamed on his section.

Playing Johnny Appleseed on New Praxis with the Flowers of Life, conjuring Protoculture from them, fabricating the matrix Lang and the REF command worshiped like some sacrosanct icon.

By the ancient Code of the Progenitors, natural ecosystems were sacrosanct, but the Civilization of Five Galaxies suffered lapses now and then.