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Penetralia

Penetralia \Pen`e*tra"li*a\, n. pl. [L., fr. penetralis penetrating, internal. See Penetrate.]

  1. The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or place, especially of a temple or palace.

  2. Hidden things or secrets; privacy; sanctuary; as, the sacred penetralia of the home.

Wiktionary
penetralia

n. 1 The innermost, secret or hidden parts. 2 The innermost parts of a building, such as a shrine, recess or a sanctuary within a temple.

WordNet
penetralia
  1. n. the innermost parts

  2. [also: penetralium (pl)]

Wikipedia
Penetralia

Penetralia is the first album by Hypocrisy, released in 1992. The cover artwork was created by Dan Seagrave. The digipak reissue contains two bonus tracks: "Life of Filth" (from Death....Is Just the Beginning II) and "Lead by Satanism".

Usage examples of "penetralia".

He dragged her through the labyrinths of his penetralia, in his hungry coveting to be loved more and still more, more still, until imagination gave up the ghost, and he talked to her plain hearing like a monster.

Call it penetralia mentis, which was a Latin term for the soul, and would do as good as any for a name.

There were varieties of penetralia mentis just as there were varieties of germs, some harmless, some beneficial, and some pretty bad.

Anyway, there were penetralia mentis that were good, or at least nothing to worry about.

He had fixed it up so the penetralia mentis awful, the one he had chosen for research, could manifest itself without needing a body to do so.

Morand was afraid, horribly afraid, that the penetralia mentis awful had escaped and was rampant.

Because penetralia mentis awfuls in human beings had always been restrained and tempered by the fact that the human being had some other penetralia mentis who were good, and they fought the bad one.

We want this thing solved, the murderers caught, and the straight of this penetralia mentis, as Morand called his evils, learned.

Gibble the notion that there was really a penetralia mentis, as Morand called it, loose and raising cain.

He hired Dan Adams to put on a show of having seen a penetralia mentis in the radar scope.

Mint would only become more Hellish the deeper he went into it, like the Inferno according to Dante, and that in its deepest penetralia would be a forge of surpassing hotness where Isaac turned lead into gold.

Burbo, satisfied with the dear assurance, strode through the apartment, and sought the penetralia of his house.

Weed felt more and more guilty as he became an old bullpen regular, one of a throng of what should plainly have been dental cases but always proved to be something else, none of them smiling, who passed nervously both ways through the gates in the railing that stood like a bar in a courtroom, an altar rail in a church, between the public side and the office penetralia full of their mysteries.

In those hours sacred to the relaxation of undress and the back hair, in the upper penetralia of the household, where two or three or six are gathered together on and about the cushioned frame intended for repose, do they converse, or indulge in that sort of chat from which not one idea is carried away?

Is this intellectualization beginning to show in the conversation of women when they are together, say in the hours of relaxation in the penetralia spoken of, or in general society?