adytum

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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

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

He contends the original level to be that of his office, which lies on the right of the adytum.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir