Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The sanctuary or sacristy of a church.
- noun Piscina.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman antiquity: Any sacred or consecrated retired place; any place where sacred objects were deposited, as that connected with the Capitoline temple where were kept the processional chariots; sometimes, a locality where a statue of an emperor was placed.
- noun A sort of family chapel in private houses, in which the images of the Penates were kept.
- noun That part of a church where the altar is situated; the sanctuary; the chancel.
- noun In ornithology, the complex sacrum of any bird, consisting of dorsolumbar or lumbosacral and of urosacral vertebræ, as well as of sacrals proper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity.
- noun The adytum of a temple.
- noun In a Christian church, the sanctuary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun in Ancient Rome A place where
sacred objects were kept, either in atemple (theadytum ) or in a house (holding thepenates ) - noun The area surrounding the
altar of aChristian church ; thesanctuary orpiscina . Sometimes specifically a drain directly to the earth, perhaps including reference to a basin, for washing vessels from consecration.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is as low as washing your hands in the sacrarium.
Archive 2008-04-01 Dymphna 2008
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It is as low as washing your hands in the sacrarium.
Monsignor Ganswein----Some folks need to rediscover so called Catholic guilt. Dymphna 2008
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But I looked forward to even the humblest act—sweeping the vestibule, or rinsing the vessels from the Eucharist in the sacrarium so that no drop of Precious Blood wound up in the Concord sewers.
Change of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008
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When as poor Lazarus is Dei sacrarium, the temple of God, lives and dies in true devotion, hath no more attendants, but his own innocency, the heaven a tomb, desires to be dissolved, buried in his mother's lap, and hath a company of [3714] Angels ready to convey his soul into Abraham's bosom, he leaves an everlasting and a sweet memory behind him.
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Vos vero veluti in templum ac sacrarium quoddam vos duci putetis, &c. Suavis et utilis cognitio.
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It spans the whole of the choir, and is continued along the sides of the sacrarium, forming sedilia of four seats on either side.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See Joseph E. Bygate
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But if it can be done conveniently, the things in which they are found are to be burned, and the ashes put in the sacrarium, as was said of the scrapings of the altar-table, here above.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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But if anything of the sort happen after the consecration, the insect should be caught carefully and washed thoroughly, then burned, and the "ablution," together with the ashes, thrown into the sacrarium.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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When he wrote, the proposal was to replace Walsingham's stalls in the octagon, and to make Bishop Hotham's three Decorated bays into a sacrarium, and so presumably re-erect the high altar on the very spot where it stood in Norman times.
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A stone screen now surrounds the sacrarium on three sides.
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