reliquary
noun/ˈɹɛlɪkwɛɹi/
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French reliquaire (modern French reliquaire), from Late Latin reliquiarium, from rēliquia (“a relic”) (English relic), noun use of reliquus (“abandoned, left behind, relict”), from relinquō (“to relinquish”), from re- (“again”) and linquō (“to leave”), from Proto-Indo-European *leikʷ-.
- derived from *leikʷ-✻
- derived from reliquiarium
- borrowed from reliquaire
Definitions
A container to hold or display religious relics.
- “… There is an ivory virgin of the fourteenth century. I once found a buyer for that piece, but the old boy would not sell it.[…]The other piece—the one that concerns us—is known as the Borgia reliquary.”
- And whether you think of those little cans as intellectual puzzles or reliquaries or scams, there are surprises inside.
An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.
A person who owes a balance.
The neighborhood
- neighborrelic
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for reliquary. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA