Sentence example with the word 'reliquary'

reliquary

arch, bust, cist grave, delubrum, holy-water font, megalith, monument, ostensorium, resting place, stupa

Definition n. a container where religious relics are stored or displayed

Last update: October 21, 2015


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Saints carry wooden reliquary with them.   [Please select]

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Besides the silver shrine of St Simeon, many gold and silver ornaments, church vessels and old manuscripts, there are a set of vestments and a reliquary, believed by the monks to have been the property of St Sava.   [Please select]

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Happiness is an antique reliquary painted on one side only.   [Please select]

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[Illustration: Ancient Stone Reliquary or Shrine, Brixworth Church, Northamptonshire.   [Please select]

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Peter's that they might make a new reliquary for the skull of S.   [Please select]

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"I'll bring you an emerald hollowed out for a reliquary--if I think on't."   [Please select]

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Kreener was a reliquary of so many secrets that this one was safe as if the grave had swallowed it.   [Please select]

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In some towns they have, in the cemetery, a bone-house or reliquary.   [Please select]

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I will add to your chains a reliquary which was presented to me by Pedro of Castile when I saved his life in the fight at Najarra.   [Please select]

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