sacellum
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The gens had its own sacellum or chapel, and its own sacra or religious rites.
From Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang
No temples in the earliest Rome; meaning of fanum, ara, lucus, sacellum.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
These two appellations we have already found in the preceding quotations to be capellula and sacellum.
From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by John Stuart
On the south slope of the latter are remains of a small temple or sacellum described by St Jerome.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
The gens had its own sacellum or chapel, and its own sacra or religious rites.
From Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang
They first worshipped them per sacella, that is, by their tabernacles, and afterwards by images also.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
No, sir, build sacella for transcendental oracles to teach the world how to see through a glass darkly.
From Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock
By these sacella or tabernacles they meant the orbs themselves, which they looked on only as the sacella or sacred tabernacles in which the intelligences had their habitations.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
