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adytum

[ad-i-tuhm] / ˈæd ɪ təm /


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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

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

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 Thomas Love Peacock

A garden lies between the pylon and the adytum.

From Paul Faber, Surgeon by George MacDonald

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

The adyta, or innermost parts of temples, were accessible only to priests.

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Curtis C. Bushnell

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




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