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- English Word Sanctuaries Definition of Sanctuary
- English Word Sanctuarize Definition To shelter by means of a sanctuary or sacred privileges.
- English Word Sanctuary Definition A sacred place; a consecrated spot; a holy and inviolable site.
- English Word Sanctuary Definition The most retired part of the temple at Jerusalem, called the Holy of Holies, in which was kept the ark of the covenant, and into which no person was permitted to enter except the high priest, and he only once a year, to intercede for the people; also, the most sacred part of the tabernacle; also, the temple at Jerusalem.
- English Word Sanctuary Definition The most sacred part of any religious building, esp. that part of a Christian church in which the altar is placed.
- English Word Sanctuary Definition A house consecrated to the worship of God; a place where divine service is performed; a church, temple, or other place of worship.
- English Word Sanctuary Definition A sacred and inviolable asylum; a place of refuge and protection; shelter; refuge; protection.
- English Word Sanctum Definition A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.
- English Word Sanctus Definition A part of the Mass, or, in Protestant churches, a part of the communion service, of which the first words in Latin are Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus [Holy, holy, holy]; -- called also Tersanctus.
- English Word Sanctus Definition An anthem composed for these words.
- English Word Sand Definition Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet.
- English Word Sand Definition A single particle of such stone.
- English Word Sand Definition The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life.
- English Word Sand Definition Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.
- English Word Sand Definition Courage; pluck; grit.
- English Word Sand Definition To sprinkle or cover with sand.
- English Word Sand Definition To drive upon the sand.
- English Word Sand Definition To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
- English Word Sand Definition To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar.
- English Word Sand-blind Definition Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind.
- English Word Sandal Definition Same as Sendal.
- English Word Sandal Definition Sandalwood.
- English Word Sandal Definition A kind of shoe consisting of a sole strapped to the foot; a protection for the foot, covering its lower surface, but not its upper.
- English Word Sandal Definition A kind of slipper.
- English Word Sandal Definition An overshoe with parallel openings across the instep.
- English Word Sandaled Definition Wearing sandals.
- English Word Sandaled Definition Made like a sandal.
- English Word Sandaliform Definition Shaped like a sandal or slipper.
- English Word Sandalwood Definition The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood.
- English Word Sandalwood Definition Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood.