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 Lang, Andrew
These two appellations we have already found in the preceding quotations to be capellula and sacellum.
From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by Stuart, John
A discovery even more fortunate, in 1857, led Sir Charles Newton to a little sacellum, or family chapel, near Cnidos.
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew
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 Fowler, W. Warde
The other appellation "sacellum," applied by Boece to the hermit's chapel, is a better known and more classical word than the capellula of the Scotichronicon.
From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by Stuart, John
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 Lord, Eleazar
No, sir, build sacella for transcendental oracles to teach the world how to see through a glass darkly.
From Crotchet Castle by Peacock, Thomas Love
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 Lord, Eleazar
