Definitions for adytum

adytum ad·y·tum

Spelling: [ad-i-tuh m]
IPA: /ˈæd ɪ təm/

Adytum is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in adytum (admtuy).

Definitions for adytum

noun

  1. (in ancient worship) a sacred place that the public was forbidden to enter; an inner shrine.
  2. the most sacred or reserved part of any place of worship.

Origin of adytum

1665-75; Latin Greek ádyton (place) not to be entered, equivalent to a- a-6 + -dyton, neuter of -dytos, verbid of dýein to enter

Examples for adytum

I must find him: I must continue my lessons: I must lead him into the adytum of Wisdom.

The adytum itself consists of three apartments, entirely of granite.

Within the adytum of an Egyptian temple we might have found "an ox wallowing on purple tapestry."

All the old temples had an adytum, sanctuary, or holy of holies—a place not open to the profane, but protected by rigid taboos.

They contained an outer court for the public, and an inner sanctuary for the priests, called the "adytum."

Two of the biggest, sir, stood in the adytum to form the baldachin over the Ark.

Behind the adytum are small rooms for the priests who served in the temple.

adytum, ad′i-tum, n. the most sacred part of a heathen temple: the chancel of a church:—pl.

Nobody was admitted here, except the initiates of the mysteries of the adytum.

Taboaa, temple of the time of Rameses II., with avenue of sphinxes; the adytum is cut in the rock, the rest built.

Word Value for adytum
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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