- A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a
tent.
- A portable structure of wooden framework covered with
curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish
exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship.
- Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place
for worship.
- Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of
the soul.
- Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or
precious things was deposited or kept.
- The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the
consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.
- A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred
painting or sculpture.
- Profane
- To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert
from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put
to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate.
- Announce publicly
- Foreshadow
- Harbinger
- Make known
- Messenger
- Outrider
- Proclaimer of news gets her a heartless lad
- Awe
- The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated;
the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe;
a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority
of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred
services, or by hallowed associations.
- Ancient Egyptian picture or symbol
- A sacred character; a character in picture writing,
as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the
plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made
up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the
hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the
object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic,
consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich
feather is a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of
symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet,
having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.
- Any character or figure which has, or is supposed to
have, a hidden or mysterious significance; hence, any unintelligible or
illegible character or mark.
- Alt. of Hieroglyphical