adjective
- pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
- guilty of sacrilege: a sacrilegious person.
adjective
- of, relating to, or involving sacrilege; impious
- guilty of sacrilege
adj.mid-15c., from Latin sacrilegiosum, from sacrilegium (see sacrilege). As a noun, “one who commits a sacrilege,” early 14c. Related: Sacrilegiously; sacrilegiousness.