sacrarium

American  

[suh-krair-ee-uhm] / səˈkrɛər i əm /

noun

• sacraria
  plural

1. Roman Catholic Church. a piscina.

2. Ecclesiastical. the sanctuary or chancel.

3. Roman History. a shrine or sanctuary.

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sacrarium British  

/ sæˈkrɛərɪəm /

noun

1. the sanctuary of a church

2. RC Church a place near the altar of a church, similar in function to the piscina, where materials used in the sacred rites are deposited or poured away

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• sacrarial
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• sacraria
  plural

Etymology

Origin of sacrarium

1700–10; < Latin, equivalent to sacr-, stem of sacer holy + -ārium -ary

Example Sentences

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sacrarium sacraria

From her seat on the sacrarium, the Queen time & again interrupted her seldom-failing smile to dart anxious glances at her daughter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alt′ar-rails, rails separating the sacrarium from the rest of the chancel.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

In the sacrarium is a small brass, showing a kneeling figure and an armorial shield, dedicated to George Littlebury, 1612.

From A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

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.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

A stone screen now surrounds the sacrarium on three sides.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See by C. King Eley

When Servius Tullius enclosed the city with his walls, there were twenty-four such altars, called sacraria Argeorum.

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani