sacrarium
Americannoun
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Roman Catholic Church. a piscina.
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Ecclesiastical. the sanctuary or chancel.
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Roman History. a shrine or sanctuary.
noun
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the sanctuary of a church
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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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Origin of sacrarium
1700–10; < Latin, equivalent to sacr-, stem of sacer holy + -ārium -ary
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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
The sacrarium of San Stefano is paved with a mosaic of marbles from the Villa Jovis, and the chapel of St. Michael is erected out of a Roman building which occupied its site.
From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard
The chancel contains the only extant specimen in Somerset of a frid stool, a rough seat let into the sill of the N. window of the sacrarium for the accommodation of any one claiming sanctuary.
From Somerset by Wade, G. W.
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 Gatty, Alfred, Mrs.
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
When Servius Tullius enclosed the city with his walls, there were twenty-four such altars, called sacraria Argeorum.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
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