sacellum
Americannoun
plural
sacella-
a small chapel, as a monument within a church.
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(in ancient Rome) a shrine open to the sky.
Etymology
Origin of sacellum
1800–10; < Latin: shrine, derivative of sacer holy, sacred; for formation see castellum
Example Sentences
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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 Lang, Andrew
This is the portal of its temple, through which alone we can gain access to the sacellum where its aporrheta are concealed.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.
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
Cum pervenerit ad sacellum ubi Sacramentum deponi debet ... cum erit episcopus ante supremum gradum altaris, diaconus accipiet de manu ipsius stantis SS.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various
The gens had its own sacellum or chapel, and its own sacra or religious rites.
From Custom and Myth by Lang, Andrew
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