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Reliquary   Listen
noun
Reliquary  n.  (pl. reliquaries)  A depositary, often a small box or casket, in which relics are kept.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Reliquary" Quotes from Famous Books



... your idols can keep away the plague that God has sent you as a punishment? Do you think the Lord will find those pieces of bone you carry in the box there so pleasant that He forgives all your dreadful sins? Take away that abomination! (He takes the reliquary from the Abbess and throws it into one of the open graves.) From dust you have come, and to dust you shall return, even if your name was Sancta Clara da Spoleto and you ate only three ounces of bread a day and slept among the swine at ...
— Master Olof - A Drama in Five Acts • August Strindberg

... the Rue du Harlay Delourmel's eye was caught by a little cart, as brilliantly painted as a reliquary, which an old woman was pushing, wearing over her coif ...
— The Gods are Athirst • Anatole France

... narrated my adventures to my friends, and showed them my reliquary purchases, and declared my strengthening intention to make my ghostly visit by moonlight, if there was any moon to be had that night, which ...
— Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 (of 2) • Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe



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