shrine

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His body was laid to rest with a sumptuous splendour;737 his relics, embalmed or shrined, were venerated with an almost idolatrous homage.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

The Easter moon, golden-white and holy, looked down at her, shrined under the long sharp arch of the beech-trees; it was like going up and up towards a dim sanctuary where the holiest sat enthroned.

From The Flaw in the Crystal by Sinclair, May

Where ’twas shrined in my heart I thy image discrown, And from out thy high heaven I hurl thee adown!

From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Zweig, Stefan

I say 'mutatis mutandis', because the historical development of a group of imaginary concepts shrined in tradition and romance can never be quite the same as that of the people who conceive them.

From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Murray, Gilbert

Mother, mother, thou art kind, Thou art standing in the room,— In a molten glory shrined, That rays off into the gloom!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various