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
I must find him: I must continue my lessons: I must lead him into the adytum of Wisdom.
From Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Behind the adytum are small rooms for the priests who served in the temple.
From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by James King
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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
And sometimes a dreadful voice issuing from the adyta has destroyed them*.
From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Thomas Taylor
What wonderful things they have heard from the adyta themselves!
From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Thomas Taylor
The adyta, or innermost parts of temples, were accessible only to priests.
From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Curtis C. Bushnell
It is not the ever-victorious and successful that we take into the adyta of our hearts.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
The magic rod of fanaticism is preserved in the very adyta of human nature; and needs only the re-exciting warmth of a master hand to bud forth afresh and produce the old fruits.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
