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Definition of "sacrum" [‖Sa•crum]

  • A triangular bone made up of five fused vertebrae and forming the posterior section of the pelvis. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "sacrum" in a sentence
  • "Next, bring your attention to your sacrum, which houses your sacred sexual energies and is the root of your psychophysical structure the word sacrum means “sacred place” in Latin."
  • "Charlemagne and his advisers conceived of his new authority as a revival of the old imperial power; only with Otto I was the distinctively new character of the regime recognized; and it became “holy” only when Frederick Barbarossa introduced the word sacrum into his title in 1155."
  • "The sign of the Churches ver sacrum is the rose, the golden rose blessed today by the Holy Father."