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

The reader who desires to know more about this oracular divinity, may consult the said doctor Alcofribas Nasier, who will usher him into the adytum through the medium of the high priestess Bacbuc.

From Maid Marian by Peacock, Thomas Love

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

The religious reserve and awe about the entrance into the adytum of their traditions were like those about the entrance into the invisible scenes beyond the veils of time and mortality.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville