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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
shrine
n 1: a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred
thing or person
v 1: enclose in a shrine; "the saint's bones were enshrined in
the cathedral" [syn: enshrine, shrine]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Shrine \Shrine\, v. t.
To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine. "Shrined in
his sanctuary." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Shrine \Shrine\ (shr[imac]n), n. [OE. schrin, AS. scr[imac]n,
from L. scrinium a case, chest, box.]
1. A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are
deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.
[1913 Webster]
2. Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like.
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Too weak the sacred shrine guard. --Byron.
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3. A place or object hallowed from its history or
associations; as, a shrine of art.
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4. Short for
Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, a
secret fraternal organization professedly originated by
one Kalif Alu, a son-in-law of Mohammed, at Mecca, in the
year of the Hegira 25 (about 646 a. d.) In the modern
order, established in the United States in 1872, only
Knights Templars or thirty-second degree Masons are
eligible for admission, though the order itself is not
Masonic. A member of the order is popularly called a
Shriner, and the order itself is sometimes called the
Shriners.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
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Thesaurus Results for shrine:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
arch, barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, boundary stone, box grave, brass, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, bust, cairn, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel house, cist, cist grave, column, cromlech, cross, crypt, cup, cyclolith, dagoba, deep six, delubrum, dokhma, dolmen, enshrinement, footstone, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, holy place, house of death, inscription, last home, long home, low green tent, low house, marker, mastaba, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, monolith, monstrance, monument, mound, mummy chamber, naos, narrow house, necrology, obelisk, obituary, ossuarium, ossuary, passage grave, pillar, pit, plaque, prize, pyramid, reliquaire, reliquary, remembrance, resting place, ribbon, rostral column, sacrarium, sanctuary, sanctum, sepulcher, shaft, shaft grave, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, tower of silence, trophy, tumulus, vault |
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Common Misspellings > |
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