sacellum
noun
a small chapel, as a monument within a church.
sacella
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pluralof sacellum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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By these sacella or tabernacles they meant the orbs themselves, which they looked on only as the sacella or sacred tabernacles in which the intelligences had their habitations.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
No, sir, build sacella for transcendental oracles to teach the world how to see through a glass darkly.
From Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock
They first worshipped them per sacella, that is, by their tabernacles, and afterwards by images also.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
