sacre

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US/ˈseɪkɚ/

verb

To consecrate.

OriginMiddle English sacren ← Old French sacrer ← Latin sacrō →
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Meanings

sacre1

verbsacre (third-person singular simple present sacres, present participle sacring, simple past and past participle sacred)

present singular third person sacres · participle present sacring · participle past sacred · past sacred

  1. obsoleteTo consecrate.

    c. 1382-1395, John Wycliffe, Bible (Wycliffe), Exodus 28:41, And thou schalt clothe Aaron, thi brother, with alle these, and hise sones with hym. And thou schalt sacre the hondis of alle; and thou schalt halewe hem, that thei be set in preesthood to me.

    2 more examples

    And I purpose this night to sacre you all with the Holy Incense.

    1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume II, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC

    From the coronation of Louis the Pious in 813 until that of Ferdinand I. in 1531 the sacring of the German kings took place at Aix, and as many as thirty-two emperors and kings were here crowned.

    1911, “Aix-la-Chapelle”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

sacre2

nounsacre (plural sacres)

plural sacres

  1. alternativeAlternative form of saker (“type of cannon”).

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sh₂krós“sacred”
  2. Latinsacrō“to make sacred, consecrate”
  3. Old Frenchsacrer“to hallow, consecrate, anoint, dedicate”
  4. Middle Englishsacren
  5. Englishsacre

From Middle English sacren, sakeren (“to make holy, hallow”), from Old French sacrer (“to hallow, consecrate, anoint, dedicate”), from Latin sacrō (“to make sacred, consecrate”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂krós (“sacred”), from *seh₂k- (“to sanctify, to make a treaty”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with sacre

makerbakerbreakershakerquakertakerlakernacrefakerDacrebrakerawakerflakerflymakermistakerorganmakersalt shakerSitarmaker
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Anagrams

scareCesarcarseseracSERCAcrasecaserceras
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APA

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MLA

“sacre.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sacre. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sacre,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sacre.

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