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Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A small chapel or shrine.

Scrine :: Scrine (n.) A chest, bookcase, or other place, where writings or curiosities are deposited; a shrine..

Adytum :: Adytum (n.) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum..

Brattishing :: Brattishing (n.) Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet..

Enshrined :: Enshrined (imp. & p. p.) of Enshrin.

Pilgrimage :: Pilgrimage (n.) The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life..

Pilgrim :: Pilgrim (n.) One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer..

Shrine :: Shrine (n.) A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art..

Shrine :: Shrine (v. t.) To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine..

Feretory :: Feretory (n.) A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints..

Enshrine :: Enshrine (v. t.) To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory..

Stationed :: Station (n.) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station o

Inshrine :: Inshrine (v. t.) See Enshrine.

Inviolable :: Inviolable (a.) Not violable; not susceptible of hurt, wound, or harm (used with respect to either physical or moral damage); not susceptible of being profaned or corrupted; sacred; holy; as, inviolable honor or chastity; an inviolable shrine..

Chapel :: Chapel (v. t.) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

Canterbury :: Canterbury (n.) A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas a Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made..

Shrine :: Shrine (n.) Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like..

Baldachin :: Baldachin (n.) A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession..

Shrine :: Shrine (n.) A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint..

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