sacred order

Scourges, he says, “are killers who act, momentarily, as agents freed from sacred order and its commanding truths.”

In the English war, the first two classes availed not, and then came the turn of the sacred order.

Sirach's proverbs are directed against the possibility of a revolution in the sacred order.

Don't be moved by declamations against ecclesiastical history, as if that could blacken the sacred order.'

You have brought insult upon our sacred order, and have caused bold and impious defiance of our high prerogative.

The songs in vogue then were principally of the sacred order.