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holy    音标拼音: [h'oli]
a. 神圣的,圣洁的,至善的
n. 神圣的东西

神圣的,圣洁的,至善的神圣的东西

holy
adj 1: belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine
power [ant: {unhallowed}, {unholy}]
n 1: a sacred place of pilgrimage [synonym: {holy place}, {sanctum},
{holy}]

Holy \Ho"ly\, a. [Compar. {Holier}; superl. {Holiest}.] [OE.
holi, hali, AS. h[=a]lig, fr. h[ae]l health, salvation,
happiness, fr. h[=a]l whole, well; akin to OS. h?lag, D. & G.
heilig, OHG. heilac, Dan. hellig, Sw. helig, Icel. heilagr.
See {Whole}, and cf. {Halibut}, {Halidom}, {Hallow},
{Hollyhock}.]
1. Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed;
sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels;
a holy priesthood. "Holy rites and solemn feasts."
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]

2. Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and
virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly;
pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God.
[1913 Webster]

Now through her round of holy thought
The Church our annual steps has brought. --Keble.
[1913 Webster]

{Holy Alliance} (Hist.), a league ostensibly for conserving
religion, justice, and peace in Europe, but really for
repressing popular tendencies toward constitutional
government, entered into by Alexander I. of Russia,
Francis I. of Austria, and Frederic William III. of
Prussia, at Paris, on the 26th of September, 1815, and
subsequently joined by all the sovereigns of Europe,
except the pope and the king of England.

{Holy bark}. See {Cascara sagrada}.

{Holy Communion}. See {Eucharist}.

{Holy family} (Art), a picture in which the infant Christ,
his parents, and others of his family are represented.

{Holy Father}, a title of the pope.

{Holy Ghost} (Theol.), the third person of the Trinity; the
Comforter; the Paraclete.

{Holy Grail}. See {Grail}.

{Holy grass} (Bot.), a sweet-scented grass ({Hierochloa
borealis} and {Hierochloa alpina}). In the north of Europe
it was formerly strewed before church doors on saints'
days; whence the name. It is common in the northern and
western parts of the United States. Called also {vanilla
grass} or {Seneca grass}.

{Holy Innocents' day}, Childermas day.

{Holy Land}, Palestine, the birthplace of Christianity.

{Holy office}, the Inquisition.

{Holy of holies} (Script.), the innermost apartment of the
Jewish tabernacle or temple, where the ark was kept, and
where no person entered, except the high priest once a
year.

{Holy One}.
(a) The Supreme Being; -- so called by way of emphasis. "
The Holy One of Israel." --Is. xliii. 14.
(b) One separated to the service of God.

{Holy orders}. See {Order}.

{Holy rood}, the cross or crucifix, particularly one placed,
in churches. over the entrance to the chancel.

{Holy rope}, a plant, the hemp agrimony.

{Holy Saturday} (Eccl.), the Saturday immediately preceding
the festival of Easter; the vigil of Easter.

{Holy Spirit}, same as {Holy Ghost} (above).

{Holy Spirit plant}. See {Dove plant}.

{Holy thistle} (Bot.), the blessed thistle. See under
{Thistle}.

{Holy Thursday}. (Eccl.)
(a) (Episcopal Ch.) Ascension day.
(b) (R. C. Ch.) The Thursday in Holy Week; Maundy
Thursday.

{Holy war}, a crusade; an expedition carried on by Christians
against the Saracens in the Holy Land, in the eleventh,
twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, for the possession of
the holy places.

{Holy water} (Gr. & R. C. Churches), water which has been
blessed by the priest for sacred purposes.

{Holy-water stoup}, the stone stoup or font placed near the
entrance of a church, as a receptacle for holy water.

{Holy Week} (Eccl.), the week before Easter, in which the
passion of our Savior is commemorated.

{Holy writ}, the sacred Scriptures. " Word of holy writ."
--Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]

110 Moby Thesaurus words for "holy":
Christlike, Christly, God-fearing, adored, all-knowing,
all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, angelic, awesome,
awful, blessed, boundless, celestial, changeless, chaste, clean,
consecrated, creating, creative, deference, devout, divine,
eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, faithful, glorified,
glorious, godlike, godly, godly-minded, good, hallowed, heavenly,
highest, holy-minded, homage, immaculate, immortal, immutable,
ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, infinite, inviolable,
inviolate, just, limitless, loving, luminous, majestic, making,
merciful, numinous, obeisance, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient,
one, otherworldly, permanent, perpetual, pietistic, pious,
prayerful, pure, pure in heart, purehearted, radiant, religious,
revered, reverence, reverenced, reverent, reverential, righteous,
sacred, sacrosanct, saintlike, saintly, sanctified, seraphic,
shaping, sinless, sovereign, spiritual, spiritual-minded, spotless,
supernal, supreme, timeless, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging,
uncorrupted, undefiled, undefined, unearthly, unlimited,
unspeakable, unsullied, untainted, untouchable, unutterable,
unworldly, venerable, venerated, worshiped


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