Sabbath: A weekly day for rest and prayer, Saturday for the Jews, Sunday for the Christians.
Sacrament: An important Christian religious ceremony such as baptism or Holy Communion.
Sacrifice: 1. Giving something that you think will please a god e.g. an offering of a killed animal.
2. Giving up something that you value, so that something good may happen.
3. A thing sacrificed.
Saint: A holy or very good person.
Sanctify: Make sacred or holy.
Sanctuary: 1. A safe place or refuge.
2. A sacred place or part of the church where the alter stands.
Satan: The Devil.
Satanic: To do with the Devil.
Satyr: A woodland god with a mans body and goats ears tail and legs from Greek myths.
Saxons: A member of a people who came from Europe and settled in parts of England in the 5th and 6th centuries.
Scaffold: A platform on which criminals are executed.
Scepticism, Sceptical: To question things, not believe easily.
Scoundrel: A wicked or dishonest person.
Scribe: 1. A person who made copies of writings before printing was invented
2. A religious scholar in biblical times
Seal: 1. Something holding two parts together.
2. Close something by sticking two parts together.
3. Conclude a deal.
4. Close an opening.
SČance: A meeting at which people try to make contact with the spirits of dead people.
Searcher: A soldier guarding something.
Serf: A farm labourer who worked for a landowner in the middle ages and who was not allowed to leave.
