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

Concerning the tripod in the adytum at Crissa, see Epist.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

Disposed, as he was, to hold, that whatever had been in Greece, was right; he was more than doubtful of the propriety of throwing open the classical adytum to the illiterate profane.

From Crotchet Castle by Peacock, Thomas Love

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