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Destination for the faithful
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shrine
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shrine \Shrine\, v. t. To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine. ``Shrined in his sanctuary.'' --Milton.
Usage examples of shrine.
The philosopher, perchance, may be accounted so, but it is at the cost of too precious sacrifices at the phantom shrine of Liberty.
People think, well, do I want to take my headache to a shrine, have to pay a lot, and risk angering a god for calling him down for my trivial complaint, or do I just want to go and pick up a couple of pills from the allopathist on the corner?
Another example of the aesthetic taste of the Japanese for naturalness is to be found in the architecture of Shinto shrines, the wood of which is often left unpainted.
The severely simple buildings of the shrine, with their raised floors, thatched roofs, and crossed end-rafters, show Shinto architecture at its best.
Chapter 1 for other remarks about the influence of granary style architecture on both shrine and palace buildings.
She was peculiarly assiduous in exhibiting the relics with which this, like all other celebrated shrines, abounds.
High Temple to confer with the logothete of the treasury on the best way to make sure we have an exact record of how much gold and silver is borrowed from each shrine we control.
Hastily erected shrines to Manion the Innocent stood prominently on blufftops above the river.
On the docks, crude hand-made shrines memorializing Manion the Innocent were strewn with flowers and colorful shells.
On the table he set out candles and an incense burner, a shrine for the Matra ei Filho.
And in the shrine an image sate, All veiled: but there was seen the light Of smiles which faintly could express A mingled pain and tenderness Through that ethereal drapery.
He stood there in the raiment of a king, and the gates of the jewelled shrine flew open, and from the crystal of the many-rayed monstrance shone a marvellous and mystical light.
Unlike other shrines to the dead, this was a tactile and participatory memorial.
All of jasper is that temple, and covering an acre of ground with its walls and courts, its seven pinnacled towers, and its inner shrine where the river enters through hidden channels and the god sings softly in the night.
While the blood was still plashing from step to step, the leader of the rangers seized a torch, and applied it to the drapery of the shrine.