adytum

Example Sentences

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Later that night, I peeked into the center’s adytum, a dark and lovely stone chapel whose altar glowed with candlelight.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2011

The crypt of adytum, used by priests for unknown rituals, was about 12 by 13 feet, roughly built, its floor stuccoed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such a divine form may yet stand in the adytum of this or that man whom he and the world count an idiot.

From There & Back by MacDonald, George

Into this sipho the pledges were placed in order to be conveyed to the adytum or secret recess of the dwelling.

From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Leech, John

I call it an entrance hall, but it is rather a small adytum, spanned by a pointed arch carrying the legend Stemmata Quid Faciunt.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir