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‖ sanctum, n.|ˈsæŋktəm|
Also 9 pl. rare sancta.
[L. sanctum, neut. of sanctus holy.]
1. The ‘holy place’ of the Jewish tabernacle and temple. Also applied to a sacred place or shrine in other temples and churches. Cf. sanctuary n.1 2.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades iii. v. 340 The tabernacle, that is diuided..into the Sanctum and the Sanctum sanctorum. 1847–8H. Miller First Impr. ii. (1857) 24 Who, in exploring a magnificent temple, passed through superb porticoes and noble halls, to find a monkey enthroned in a little dark sanctum as the god of the whole. 1855Englishwoman in Russia 72 We ladies are not allowed to enter the ‘sanctum’ [of the Kazan church].
fig.1858Trollope Three Clerks xvii, Flower shows..are open to ladies who cannot quite penetrate the inner sancta of fashionable life.
2. = sanctum sanctorum 2.
1819T. Hope Anastasius (1820) III. xiv. 362 He..then dragged us by main force into what he called his sanctum. 1838Lytton Alice iii. iii, He found the banker in his private sanctum. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke vi, His sanctum behind the shop. 1870H. Smart Race for Wife ii, Maude flits away to her own little sanctum. 1883Ld. R. Gower My Remin. I. ii. 26 This room was..the sanctum of a scholar and a man of refinement. |