Sentence examples for sacred function from inspiring English sources
It's the one way in which movie theaters can still reliably fulfill their most sacred function.
These items can't be removed to a museum, for the most part, or simply locked away or they lose their sacred function.
A priest may be defined as one who, as a mediator, performs the sacred function of communicating through rites the needs of the people to heaven and the sacred power and presence from heaven to the congregation.
An alien anthropologist studying "Foreign Parts" might note that in this area the car has a totemic, sacred function while also serving as a source of livelihood and, in a few cases, a home.
Yet a medical culture deaf to a discussion about death generates an overreliance on the sacred function of the physician and her biomedical toolkit.
The state's job is not to administer such a sacred function any more than clergy or houses of worship are to endorse politicians, pass legislation, or plan road construction projects for America's interstates.
In addition, the renunciation of mandatory celibacy would violate an immemorial tradition and obscure the Catholic idea of the priest as a person set apart for sacred functions.
Although the kimi exercised both secular and sacred functions, it seems that their primary focus was a priestly one, based on a sacred connection with Mount Miwa.
The story is also at the root of the priestly role imposed on Samuel at a later date in 1 Chronicles 6; but this is an effort to explain in terms of the later priesthood the sacred functions performed by Samuel.
At Rome the wives of particular priests were regarded as priestesses, and had to perform certain sacred functions, as the regina sacrorum and the flaminica.
