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not
     1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
           Did you take out the trash? No, I did not.
           Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
     2. adv. To no degree.
           That is not red; it's orange.
     3. conj. And not.
           I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
           He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
     4. interj. (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
           I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not!
           Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not!
     5. n. Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function.
           You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip.
     6. contraction. (obsolete) Contraction of ne wot, wot not; know not; knows not.
sacred
     1. adj. Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated; made holy.
           a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service
     2. adj. Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular
     3. adj. Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics.
     4. adj. Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
     5. adj. Not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.
     6. adj. (followed by the preposition "to") Consecrated; dedicated; devoted
     7. adj. (archaic) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.
     8. v. simple past tense and past participle of sacre
     sacre
          1. v. (obsolete) To consecrate
          2. n. alt form, saker, , type of cannon
or
     1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
           In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
           He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
     2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
     3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
     4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
           It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
     5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
           The country Myanmar, or Burma
     6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
     7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
     8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
     9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
     10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
     11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
Holy
     1. adj. alternative case form of holy used when referring to an important figure, such as God, or to an important item or event.
     2. adj. Dedicated to a religious purpose or a god.
           I'm planning to visit the holy city of Jerusalem this Christmas.
     3. adj. Revered in a religion.
     4. adj. Perfect or flawless.
     5. adj. Separated or set apart from (something unto something or someone else).
     6. adj. Set apart or dedicated for a specific purpose, or for use by a single entity or person.
     7. adj. (slang) Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
           Holy cow, I can’t believe he actually lost the race!
           Those children next door are holy terrors!
     8. n. (archaic) A thing that is extremely holy; used almost exclusively in Holy of Holies.
unconsecrated
     1. adj. Not consecrated
relating
     1. v. present participle of relate
     2. n. The act of relating, or forming or identifying relationships; relation.
     relate
          1. v. To tell in a descriptive way.
          2. v. To give an association.
          3. v. To make a connection or correlation between one thing and another.
          4. v. (intransitive) To have a connection.
                I find it difficult to relate to others because I'm extremely introverted.
          5. v. (intransitive) To interact.
          6. v. (intransitive) To respond through reaction.
          7. v. (intransitive, with to) To identify with; to understand.
          8. v. (obsolete) To bring back; to restore.
to
     1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
           I want to leave.
           He asked me what to do.
           I don’t know how to say it.
           I have places to go and people to see.
     2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
           "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
           If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
     3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
           I have to do laundry today.
     4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
           We are walking to the shop.
     5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
           He devoted himself to education.
           They drank to his health.
     6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
           His face was beaten to a pulp.
     7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
           similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
     8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
           With God to friend (with God as a friend);   with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe);   lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice);   t
     9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
           one to one = 1:1
           ten to one = 10:1.
           I have ten dollars to your four.
     10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
           Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
           Three to the power of two is nine.
           Three to the second is nine.
     11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
           I gave the book to him.
     12. prep. (time) Preceding.
           ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
     13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
           Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
           There's a lot of sense to what he says.
     14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
           Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
     15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
           Please push the door to.
     16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
     17. adv. misspelling of too
non
     1. adv. obsolete form of none
religious
     1. adj. Concerning religion.
           It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
     2. adj. Committed to the practice of religion.
           I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.
     3. adj. Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
           I'm a religious fan of college basketball.
     4. n. A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
matters
     1. n. plural of matter
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of matter
           Nothing really matters.
           But it matters to me.
     matter
          1. n. Substance, material.
          2. n.          (physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume.
          3. n.          (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles. (Non-antimatter matter).
          4. n.          A kind of substance.
                        vegetable matter
          5. n.          Written material (especially in books or magazines).
                        printed matter;   He always took some reading matter with him on the plane.
          6. n.          (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substa
          7. n. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.
                What's the matter?;   state matters
          8. n. An approximate amount or extent.
                I stayed for a matter of months.
          9. n. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
          10. n. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
          11. n. (dated) Pus.
          12. v. (intransitive) To be important.
                The only thing that matters to Jim is being rich.
                Sorry for pouring ketchup on your clean white shirt! - Oh, don't worry, it does not matter.
          13. v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important.
          14. v. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
secular
     1. adj. Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
     2. adj. Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
     3. adj. (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
           secular clergy in Catholicism
     4. adj. Happening once in an age or century.
           The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.
     5. adj. Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
           The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.
           on a secular basis
     6. adj. (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
     7. adj. (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
     8. adj. (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
     9. n. A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
     10. n. A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
     11. n. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
Dictionary entries from Wiktionary