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Sachemdom
- - The government or jurisdiction of a sachem.
Sack Coat
- noun - man''s hiplength coat with a straight back; the jacket of a suit
- man's hiplength coat with a straight back; the jacket of a suit
Sack Race
- noun - a novelty race in which competitors jump ahead with their feet confined in a sack
Sackcloth
- noun - a coarse cloth resembling sacking
- a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse
Sacrament
- noun - a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction
Sacrarium
- - A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity.
Sacrifice
- noun - (baseball) an out that advances the base runners
- a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value; "he had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice"
- endure the loss of; "He gave his life for his children"; "I gave two sons to the war"
- kill or destroy; "The animals were sacrificed after the experiment"; "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment"
- make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals
- personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)
- sell at a loss
- the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
- the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
Sacrilege
- noun - blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath"
- Defiling the sacred
- religious violation
Sacristan
- noun - an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects