单词 | reliquary |
释义 | reliquaryn. 1. A receptacle, often made of precious metal and richly decorated, in which a religious relic or relics are kept, as a small box, casket, or shrine. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > portable shrines or relics > portable shrine > [noun] shrinec1000 crystalc1330 feretoryc1330 scrinea1350 phylacteryc1384 sanctuaryc1386 monstrance1522 feretrum1536 reliquary1550 reliquaire1611 relicarya1661 chasse1670 enchâssure1716 mikoshi1727 sanctorium1816 1550 Inventory Munim. Earl of Crawford I. 20 Dec. 89 Ane relikkarie of Sanct Dorothea set in siluer. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius iii. f. 462v Historyes do report..that some of those Ashes be at Genes..and some at Rome..will our religious Reliquary [L. Reliquiarius] defend these for true, being so manifestly false? 1624 A. Darcie tr. Originall of Idolatries xiv. 59 Before the Cabinet or Reliquarie, went a Cierger, carrying a light Taper. 1686 tr. D. Bouhours Life St. Ignatius vi. 349 In a Reliquary, which he always carry'd about him, he put..a Relique of St. Thomas. 1739 T. Gray Let. 12 Apr. in Corr. (1971) I. 101 We..stopt at St. Denis, saw..crucifixes, and vows, crowns and reliquaries, of inestimable value. 1783 W. Beckford Dreams viii. 66 After dinner we were led round the churches, and if you are as much tired with reading my voluminous descriptions, as I was with the continual repetition of altars and reliquaries, the Lord have mercy upon you! 1841 M. H. Bloxam Princ. Gothic Eccles. Archit. (ed. 4) 202 A small stone reliquary or shrine of the fourteenth century was discovered a few years ago. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §1. 346 Fresh orders were given to fling all relics from their reliquaries. 1909 Eng. Hist. Rev. 24 763 This entails a careful study of..the use of balsam with which the reliquary was filled, and of the strange relic of the praeputium which it is reported to have once contained. 1956 Chicago Tribune 8 Oct. ii. 1/1 A silver reliquary containing a particle of Innocent's heart. 2000 R. King Brunelleschi's Dome (2001) xvi. 141 Saint Zenobius, whose skull had been..placed inside a silver reliquary shaped like the dead saint's head. 2. figurative. Something that preserves the memory of events or persons of the past. ΚΠ 1611 H. Hexham tr. J. Polyander Disputation against Adoration of Reliques of Saints 11 The sincere doctrine of the H[oly] Gospell, and in breaking of bread, the true reliquaries and memorialls of the instructions & suffrances of our sole Redeemer Iesus Christ. 1760 G. Thompson tr. Francisco de los Santos Descr. Escurial viii. 104 The reliquary of heaven..which has no equal. 1845 E. A. Poe Coliseum 12 Rich reliquary Of lofty contemplation left to Time By buried centuries. 1870 B. J. Lossing Home of Washington 12 The writer..has added many pages of interesting matter to the original collection, making, it is believed, a complete reliquary of Washington and his Home. 1973 Sociol. Anal. 34 7 Any pictures, monuments and statues of national heroes, as well as the national flag, could form a reliquary of the secular ethic. 1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Dec. 35/2 People..stayed on, building small, cluttered lives, turning this neighborhood into a reliquary of Frankfurt-on-the-Hudson—as the old joke goes. Compounds General attributive, as reliquary altar, reliquary pot, reliquary ring, etc. ΚΠ 1647 Arch. Maryland (1887) IV. 321 (list) A gold Reliquary case. a1660 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais Wks. (1693) iii. lii. 423 Some fine Urn or Reliquary Pot. 1760 G. Thompson tr. Francisco de los Santos Descr. Escurial ix. 141 Six candlesticks..are placed on the two reliquary altars on solemn days. 1877 W. Jones Finger-ring Lore 142 In the possession of Lady Fitz Harding is a remarkable reliquary ring. 1911 L. Hourticq Art in France ii. 30 Bernard..found in Auvergne certain reliquary statues which were venerated by the natives. 1955 Renaissance News 8 136 On the back of a simple reliquary crucifix of c. 1500..there are six obviously somewhat older translucent silver enamel plaques. 1986 Speculum 61 148 House-shaped reliquary purses. 2003 J. B. Scott Archit. for Shroud iv. 107 Guarini must already have been thinking about the chapel's reliquary altar, to which the flanking shafts would be visually tied. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). reliquaryadj. rare. Relating to or characteristic of a relic or relics. Also: of the nature of a remnant, residual. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > portable shrines or relics > relic > [adjective] reliquian1613 reliquary1830 reliquarian1861 1830 G. S. Faber Diffic. Romanism (ed. 2) i. vi. 216 The two most curious specimens of reliquary superstition. 1858 C. Patmore Betrothal ix, in Angel in House (ed. 2) I. 115 I paced the Close, its every part Endow'd with reliquary force To heal and raise from death my heart. 1889 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII. 537 There results a stage in which a rosette of young forms..encircles a central portion of protoplasm, known as the reliquary body or residual mass. 1985 D. Lowenthal Past is Foreign Country (1988) v. 191 We saturate ourselves with bygone reliquary details, reaffirming memory and history in tangible form. 2006 D. Winner Those Feet 98 A minor reliquary cult has grown up around the memory of ‘the club that died’—the badly run and poorly supported Accrington Stanley, which went out of business in 1962. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1550adj.1830 |
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