sacerdotal
adjective
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Sacerdotal is one of a host of English words derived from the Latin adjective sacer, meaning "sacred." Other words derived from sacer include desecrate, sacrifice, sacrilege, consecrate, sacrament, and even execrable (developed from the Latin word exsecrari, meaning "to put under a curse"). One surprising sacer descendant is sacrum, referring to the series of five vertebrae in the lower back connected to the pelvis. In Latin this bone was called the os sacrum, or "holy bone," a translation of the Greek hieron osteon.
Examples of sacerdotal in a Sentence
Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
Diminution drains this office of the sacerdotal pomposities that have encrusted it.
—Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2017
The brand inspires a sacerdotal devotion in many of its workers (its archives contain the papers of one of the atelier’s premieres, or heads, who served from 1947 to 1990).
—Matthew Schneier, New York Times, 1 July 2017
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“Sacerdotal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sacerdotal. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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