adytum

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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

No gold or silver glitters in the modern adytum, or editor's room, and the tripod from which we distribute our afflatus to the compositors is a wooden three-legged stool, unpainted and uncushioned.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

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