Definitions for reliquary

reliquary rel·i·quar·y

Spelling: [rel-i-kwer-ee]
IPA: /ˈrɛl ɪˌkwɛr i/

Reliquary is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in reliquary (aeilqrruy).

Definitions for reliquary

noun

  1. a repository or receptacle for relics.

Origin of reliquary

1650-60; Middle French reliquaire Medieval Latin reliquiārium, equivalent to Latin reliqui(ae) remains (see relic) + -ārium -ary

Examples for reliquary

Jane brought it to Con as to the proper keeper of the reliquary.

In some towns they have, in the cemetery, a bone-house or reliquary.

I called it an amulet: rightly, I should have said a reliquary.

It is circular in form, and was probably intended as a reliquary.

In the reliquary at Berlin, the figures of the saints are too short.

Father Thomas Michelet, having accompanied the reliquary from Sainte-Baume to New York, was surprised by the turnout.

Menstir, a reliquary; poolire, a leathern bookcase or satchel.

The chaplain, holding the reliquary in his hands by the stem I have spoken of.

She rushed for a little box which she had converted into a sort of reliquary.

Every January 1, the priest would lead a procession with the relic and its 18th-century reliquary.

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