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

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

I must find him: I must continue my lessons: I must lead him into the adytum of Wisdom.

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

But the additional screen this mutual reserve erected between us only brought me more completely under her power: no matter how empty the adytum, so that the veil be thick enough. 

From The Lifted Veil by Eliot, George