sacellum
Americannoun
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sacella
plural
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a small chapel, as a monument within a church.
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(in ancient Rome) a shrine open to the sky.
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Etymology
Origin of sacellum
1800–10; < Latin: shrine, derivative of sacer holy, sacred; for formation see castellum
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On the south slope of the latter are remains of a small temple or sacellum described by St Jerome.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
No temples in the earliest Rome; meaning of fanum, ara, lucus, sacellum.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
The other appellation "sacellum," applied by Boece to the hermit's chapel, is a better known and more classical word than the capellula of the Scotichronicon.
From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by John Stuart
A discovery even more fortunate, in 1857, led Sir Charles Newton to a little sacellum, or family chapel, near Cnidos.
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Andrew Lang
These two appellations we have already found in the preceding quotations to be capellula and sacellum.
From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by John Stuart
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
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
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
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