sacred

Modifying Another Word

• almost: It starts with a chord which seems mystical - almost sacred.
• especially: In this connection the number seven became especially sacred with them, and ever preserved its importance with the astrologers.
• truly: As with all truly sacred places, the points where veins of primary water exited the Medicine Wheel were clearly marked.
• too: The saint with a tile loose is a bit too sacred, I guess, to be parodied.
• once: It is said that Siamese were once sacred cats, guarding the Buddhist temples.
• so: What is so sacred about Thursday, you might ask?

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• hold: Druids hold the land sacred, and honor the trees as symbols of the beauty and strength of creation.
• make: Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?

Modifies a noun

• grove: There was a party of Druids walking down to the sacred grove to perform their daily rites.
• cow: Why is the car treated like a sacred cow?
• scripture: He was also a great man for interpreting sacred scripture for the benefit of the less learned.
• relic: The memory of this historic road will live on, tho: a handful of sacred relics were rescued shortly after it was downgraded.
• rite: How are we to utilize it, then, to prevent it from becoming the instrument of a sacred rite?
• geometry: Like the sacred geometry to be found in these cultures, Peter's painting provides an image for thought.

Used with adjective complement

• deem: But a place does not have to be deemed sacred by the masses for it to provide spiritual satisfaction for an individual.
• hold: In a single moment, everything that science held sacred suddenly turned on its head.
• consider: The Vatican Hill in Rome considered sacred to Peter was previously sacred to Mithras.
• regard: I was on the approximate crash site, standing on ground which must be regarded as sacred to any true Red.
• become: With respect for these holy people and religious values, people continued to protect and care for these trees, which became almost sacred.
• keep: We cannot at once keep sacred the miracle of existence and hold sacrosanct the capacity to destroy it.