Definition of Semisacred

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Semisacred

semiregularity
semirelativistic
semireligious
semiretired
semiretirement
semiretirements
semirevealing
semirigid
semiring
semirings
semiround
semirounded
semirounds
semirural
semis
semisacred (current term)
semisatiric
semisatirical
semisatisfied
semisavage
semisavages
semischolarly
semiscientific
semiscripted
semisecrecy
semisecret
semisecretive
semisecretly
semisecular
semisedentary

Literary usage of Semisacred

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Party of the Third Part: The Story of the Kansas Industrial Relations Court by Henry Justin Allen (1921)
"... fuel, food, and other things may sometimes also partake of the semisacred characteristics, for they may mean the difference between life and death. ..."

2. The Party of the Third Part: The Story of the Kansas Industrial Relations Court by Henry Justin Allen (1921)
"... fuel, food, and other things may sometimes also partake of the semisacred characteristics, for they may mean the difference between life and death. ..."

3. The Spanish People: Their Origin, Growth, and Influence by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (1901)
"... against the Latin Celtiberians, influenced by Christianity, with their deeply rooted idea of an equal democracy under a semisacred Caesar; or, ..."

4. The Spanish People: Their Origin, Growth, and Influence by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (1911)
"... brother Joseph as a gift; the one stable institution that had been left in the former wreck, the semisacred sovereignty, was a scoff now for all men. ..."

5. The Spanish People: Their Origin, Growth, and Influence by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (1901)
"... the Latin Celtiberians, influenced by Christianity, with their deeply rooted idea of an equal democracy under a semisacred ..."

6. New Cosmopolis: A Book of Images. Intimate New York. Certain European Cities by James Huneker (1915)
"I speak of certain semisacred houses where the ritual of beer-drinking is observed, where at prescribed hours fanatics meet and solemnly absorb the amber ..."

7. The History of Caste in India: Evidence of the Laws of Manu on the Social by Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar (1909)
"... and other sacred or semisacred literature; and (2) a sense of inadequacy of the injunctions of the past; and (3) a desire for a more systematic ..."

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