reliquialadj.
/rᵻˈlɪkwɪəl/, U.S. /rəˈlɪkwiəl/ Belonging to, resembling, or characteristic of a relic or relics.
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1849 J. Gray Earth's Antiq. in Harmony with Mosaic Rec. Creation iv. 180 Those countless extinct races of sentient creatures, which thus have laid up, in the bosom of the solid earth, these Reliquial Tablets.
1863 Pro. Amer. Philos. Soc. 9 194 President Hitchcock finds its reliquial glaciers in the valleys of Hampshire and Berkshire.
1888 G. MacDonald Elect Lady xxx. 284 His interest in philology, prosody, history, and reliquial humanity.
1945 Amer. Midland Naturalist 34 314 Presumably they are reliquial there and in the Mount Hamilton Range.
2006 C. Condren Argument & Authority in Early Mod. Eng. xii. 259 Erected on the precedent of the oaths of previous godly princes, and upon the reliquial incantation of St Edward the Confessor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1849- to get one's irish up
- to get one's jacket
- to get one's jollies
- to get one's jotters
- to get one's kit off
- to get one's knickers in a twist
- to get one's laughing gear around something
- to get one's leave
- to get one's leg over
- to get one's leg over the harrows
- to get one's licks
- to get one's living
- to get one's load
- to get one's lowing laid
- to get one's lug in one's loof
- to get one's mad up
- to get one's marching orders
- to get one's message across
- to get one's mind off
- to get one's mind off from
- to get one's mittimus
- to get one's mojo working
- to get one's money at the best
- to get one's money where one's mouth is
- to get one's money's worth