sacellum

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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

This is the portal of its temple, through which alone we can gain access to the sacellum where its aporrheta are concealed.

From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.

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

Cum pervenerit ad sacellum ubi Sacramentum deponi debet ... cum erit episcopus ante supremum gradum altaris, diaconus accipiet de manu ipsius stantis SS.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various

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