(superl.) Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood.
(superl.) Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly; pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God.
Example Sentences:
(1) The next day on his blog he called the job "the Holy Grail of animation gigs".
(2) The Kalachakra Puja takes place in the eastern state of Bihar at the holy Bodhgaya site, where the Buddha gained enlightenment.
(3) Most of these troops are being sent to Helmand and neighbouring Kandahar where a big push against the Taliban is expected in September, after the holy month of Ramadan.
(4) There's apparently a 30-seat cinema in Paris that's played The Holy Grail for three decades.
(5) Islamist militants have attacked Iraq's largest oil refinery in the city of Baiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, as Iran raised the prospect of direct military intervention to protect Shia holy sites.
(6) The Holy Father has now decided that my resignation will take effect today, 25 February 2013, and that he will appoint an apostolic administrator to govern the archdiocese in my place until my successor as archbishop is appointed.
(7) Speaking in 2001 at the launch of Death in Holy Orders , her 11th Dalgliesh novel, James explained that her success was founded on the belief that plot could never make up for poor writing and that authors should always focus on the reader.
(8) The staggering figure – one of the worst bombings in 13 years of war in Iraq – has cast a pall on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan and which begins on Wednesday in Iraq .
(9) And not just the Muslim holy sites, he adds; Palestinians are more visible in the west of the city than previously.
(10) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
(11) O’Brien’s successor as archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Leo Cushley, said: “I am confident that the decision of the Holy Father is fair, equitable and proportionate.
(12) Has Net-a-Porter found the holy grail of 21st-century fashion?
(13) Hitler chose to stage Nazi party rallies in the city due to its connections to the Holy Roman Empire and the Nuremberg laws, which stripped Jews of their German citizenship, were passed here.
(14) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(15) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
(16) In the mid-1990s, when the movement's influence on HTB was at its height, I visited a Chelsea church run by Nicky Lee, one of the men who converted Welby at Cambridge, and when the Holy Spirit started knocking people down, I'd hear the distinct rattle of pearls when the young women fainted to the floor.
(17) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
(18) The fear that Israel was planning to alter the status of the holy place Arabs call Al-Haram Al-Sharif and the Jews the Temple Mount set off the violence.
(19) Recipes for " tomato burgers " (bestowing this fruit sandwich with the holy title of "burger" is an affront to cows everywhere), help on undergoing a " friendship divorce ", extortionate travel guides … Goop covers a lot of ground.
(20) The IAEA team is likely to visit an underground enrichment site near the holy city of Qom, 80 miles south of Tehran, which is carved into a mountain as protection from possible airstrikes.
Sanctum
Definition:
(n.) A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.
Example Sentences:
(1) The antibacterial spectrum of E. alba was in between that of T. chebula and O. sanctum.
(2) Wallace Broecker's office looks at first glance what you might expect from the inner sanctum of one of the world's leading geoscientists and oceanographers.
(3) The dressing room door is the ultimate inner sanctum.
(4) The leaf extracts of Ocimum sanctum, Lawsonia inermis and Calotropis gigantea and leaf and flower extracts of Azadirachta indica were, however, found to inhibit both mMDH and mME.
(5) "You don't have to be in the inner sanctum of everything to be able to exercise influence in leadership," he says.
(6) Its concentric passageway symbolises the guided, ritualised walk of the common man towards the sacred inner sanctum of the democratic parliament hall.
(7) Where her predecessors were accused of appointing women as “window dressing” but keeping them out of the room where big decisions are taken, May seems to be doing the reverse: building an inner sanctum in her own image while filling the shop window with figures reassuring to those diehard backbench Eurosceptics who could otherwise make her life as impossible as John Major’s.
(8) The activity against Salmonella organisms was shown only by T. chebula; against Shigella organisms by T. chebula and E. alha; but not by O. sanctum.
(9) Grierson was handpicked by James Cameron to use the Canadian film-maker's 3D Fusion Camera System on Sanctum.
(10) A methanol extract and an aqueous suspension of Ocimum sanctum leaves were investigated for their immunoregulatory profile to antigenic challenge of Salmonella typhosa and sheep erythrocytes by quantifying agglutinating antibodies employing the Widal agglutination and sheep erythrocyte agglutination tests and E-rosette formation in albino rats.
(11) I remember as a boy being allowed into the inner sanctum of the light room and sitting inside the space between the lenses, looking out at the world through the bevelled glass.
(12) Gaby Hinsliff : She has built an inner sanctum in her own image – but has given top jobs to only seven women The one thing nobody expected from Theresa May was a cabinet stuffed with middle-aged men.
(13) Effects of restraint stress (RS) and its modulation by O. sanctum (Os), eugenol and T. malabarica (Tm) were evaluated on some biochemical and biophysical parameters in rats.
(14) Defections from the regime's forces to the Free Syria Army have been constant for the past few months, but Damascus maintains control of many key divisions and is not known to have lost any members of its most elite units or inner sanctum.
(15) The chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander – along with David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg – is a member of the quad, the inner sanctum on which the coalition is built.
(16) An ethanol extract of the leaves of Ocimum sanctum was screened for its effects on the central nervous system.
(17) Wonderingly, you wander upstairs and into the sanctum of his bedchamber.
(18) So near yet so far: inside the inner sanctum, but outside the inner circle.
(19) Persistent bombing by Syrian military jets and artillery has been unable to dislodge armed opposition groups who have been poised on the edge of the capital's inner sanctum, but unable to advance.
(20) He said it was around 10 October, but most of what remained of the inner sanctum was forming a protective guard weeks earlier than that.