† sacraryn.
Obsolete.
1.
a. gen. A place where sacred objects are kept; a sacred building or apartment; a temple, shrine, sanctuary.
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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [noun]
templec825
minsterc1175
washing-templea1382
sacraryc1384
fane14..
naos1775
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. ix. 13 Thei that wirchen in the sacrarie, that is, a place where hooly thingis ben kept, eten tho thingis that ben of the sacrarie.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. 3823 Þei token al þat cam to her honde,..Reliques sacrid, þe holy eke vessels,..oute of þe sacrarie.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xv. 59 This Yarbas..had..made an hondred temples wythin his royalme, wyth an hondred othre sacraryes, in whiche he had consecrated the fyre brennyng without ceasse.
?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter lxxviii. 226 Hys sacrary, which once in Sylo stoode.
1620 Bp. J. King Serm. 24 Mar. 27 The dilapidation of any of Gods Oratories and Sacraries, his Heauens vpon earth, goeth to his heart like swords.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 256 The Sacrary of Serapis in Alexandria was burnt.
b. figurative.
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14.. J. Lydgate Life Our Lady lxxvii. (1484) l v b God chase thy wombe for his tabernacle And halowed it so clene in euery coost To make hit sacrarye for his owen ghoost.
a1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS xxiii. 425 Heil þou holy sacrarie, Vr askynges euer heryng [L. Aue secretarium exaudicionis].
1615 T. Adams Mystical Bedlam i. 12 The purified heart is Gods Sacrary, his Sanctuary, his House, his Heauen.
1668 M. Casaubon Of Credulity & Incred. (1670) 135 A more venerable..man..who would open all sacraries and fountains of Truth, should appear upon earth.
1676 M. Nedham Pacquet Advices 50 That draws a Reverence to the Throne itself; which should be religiously fenced about, not only as the Sacrary of Royalty, but as the Sanctuary also of other Princes.
2. spec. In a Christian church: = sacrarium n.1 2a.
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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > chancel or sanctuary > [noun]
chancel1303
sacrarya1387
sanctuarya1400
presbytery1466
presbyterium1565
cancelli1642
bema1683
sacrarium1727
haikal1884
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 155 By schewynge of God he fonge [read fonde] a greet deel of þe cros in Seynt Peter his sacrarie.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 721/1 Hoc sacrarium, a sacrear.
1482 Monk of Evesham xiii. 35 Abowte the sacrarye of the same auter y knowe wele y left my selfe.
1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. 455 b The ashes to be reposed in the sacrary among the other reliques.
1727 Acc. Ceremonies in Coronations 22 The Bishops to their Seats on the North side of the Area or Sacrary.
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