adytum
Example Sentences
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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
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No gold or silver glitters in the modern adytum, or editor's room, and the tripod from which we distribute our afflatus to the compositors is a wooden three-legged stool, unpainted and uncushioned.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various
But now it appeared that thus far I had never been admitted to the adytum.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret
Nobody was admitted here, except the initiates of the mysteries of the adytum.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
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