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Definition of Reliquary
1. Noun. A container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints).
Definition of Reliquary
1. n. A depositary, often a small box or casket, in which relics are kept.
Definition of Reliquary
1. Noun. A container to hold or display religious relics. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reliquary
1. [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reliquary
Literary usage of Reliquary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guide to Printed Books and Manuscripts Relating to English and Foreign by George Gatfield (1892)
"See "The reliquary." yol. XT. Lond. 1874, 8°- The First Volume of the Registers
... See " The reliquary," vol. XX Lond. 1880, 8°- Extracts from the Parish ..."
2. Cardinal Lavigerie and the African Slave Trade by Richard Frederick Clarke (1889)
"The following description of the reliquary mentioned in the brief addressed by
Pope Leo XIII. to Cardinal Lavigerie in November 1887, was published in the ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Almost to the close of the tenth century, for instance, neither cross nor
candle-stick was permitted upon the altar, only small reliquary caskets being ..."
4. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"It contains a fine brass-gilt late-Gothic reliquary (the 'reliquary of the
Maccabees'), with reliefs, in which the remains of Albertus Magnus (d. ..."
5. Guide to Printed Books and Manuscripts Relating to English and Foreign by George Gatfield (1892)
"See "The reliquary," vol. viii. Lond. 1868, 8°. Catalogue of Bailiffs of Derby,
... See " The reliquary," vol. vii. Lond. 1867, 8°. Extracts from the Parish ..."
6. Journal of the British Archaeological Association by British Archaeological Association (1848)
"THE reliquary which forms the subject of our engraving, and is now in the possession
of Mr. George Isaacs, is of a very unusual character. ..."
7. The True Principles of Pointed Or Christian Architecture: Set Forth in Two by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1841)
"... and a circular reliquary at Aix, which Dr. Rock considers to have been used
as a pax, which is a transcendant specimen of the art of enamel. ..."
8. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1888)
"He contributed the letter-press in 1841 to two works on the famous reliquary of
Ste. Ursula, painted by Hans Meml ing, ..."
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