| 释义 |
‖ penetralia, n. pl.|pɛnɪˈtreɪlɪə|
[L., pl. of penetral or penetrāle: see prec.]
The innermost parts or recesses of a building; esp. of a temple, the sanctuary or inmost shrine; hence gen. and fig. Innermost parts, recesses.
1668Howe Bless. Righteous (1823) 92 From the penetralia—the secret chambers of the soul. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 274 Admitted into the inmost Penetralia of the Lungs. 1779W. Alexander Hist. Women iv. (1782) I. 118 So little do..[they] know what passes in all the penetralia of the harams of the East. 1849Miss Mulock Ogilvies xi. (1875) 86 But the sanctum sanctorum, the penetralia of the city, is a small region surrounding the cathedral, entitled the Close. 1876Holland Sev. Oaks xxiii. 323 They followed the boy into the penetralia of the great office.
Hence peneˈtralian a. rare, of or pertaining to the penetralia.
1892Ld. Lytton King Poppy xi. 254 Within thy spirit's penetralian shrine. |