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sanctum
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sanctum \Sanc"tum\, n. [L., p. p. of sancire to consecrate.] A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.
Sanctum sanctorum [L.], the Holy of Holies; the most holy place, as in the Jewish temple.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "holy place of the Jewish tabernacle," from Latin sanctum "a holy place," as in Late Latin sanctum sanctorum "holy of holies" (translating Greek to hagion ton hagiou, translating Hebrew qodesh haqqodashim), from neuter of sanctus "holy" (see saint (n.)). In English, sanctum sanctorum attested from c.1400; in sense of "a person's private retreat" from 1706.
Wiktionary
n. A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a private retreat or workroom. A sacred or private place.
WordNet
n. a place of inviolable privacy; "he withdrew to his sanctum sanctorum, where the children could never go" [syn: sanctum sanctorum]
a sacred place of pilgrimage [syn: holy place, holy]
[also: sancta (pl)]
Wikipedia
For the 2011 indie game, see Sanctum (2011 video game).
Sanctum is a two-player computer collectible card game, played online against human opponents. Players log into a "Game Lobby" (known as "The Gate") to find other players to challenge to a match. It runs on the Windows operating system. It was developed by Digital Addiction in 1997, and was launched to public participation on July 9, 1998. At its peak, the game had over 1200 active participants (who logged in at least twice weekly over a period of three months). Registered users reached 82,000 by 1999, and by May, 2000 had over 100 thousand registered users. It was one of the first online trading card games, and received many favorable reviews.
The virtual "collectible cards" include common, uncommon, and rare, with different powers, in-game functions and artwork. They do not exist as actual physical cards (with the exception of a few that were distributed by Digital Addiction for promotional purposes) but they are owned and traded in an online account, and are played solely within the virtual environment of Sanctum. A registered player is given a certain number of free cards to play, and additional cards can be purchased through the online card store.
Sanctum has had a devoted user following, with player clubs and cabals, tournaments and prizes, secondary card markets, fan fiction, trivia contests, and dozens of fan web sites.
Sanctum is currently run by members of its community. The most recent update to the game was released February 17, 2014.
A sanctum is a holy site.
Other uses of the term include:
- Sanctum (temple), inner part of a temple where deities are present
- Sanctum (band), a Swedish musical group
- Sanctum (film), a 2011 3D action-thriller film
- Sanctum (game), an online collectible card game
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Sanctum (2011 video game), a first-person tower defense game for PC
- Sanctum 2, the sequel to the 2011 game
Sanctum is a first-person shooter tower defense video game, developed by independent developer Coffee Stain Studios. It has been available for pre-purchase via Steam for Microsoft Windows since 24 March 2011. The successor, Sanctum 2, was announced in 2012 and released in May 2013.
Sanctum (Temple) is a sacred place, in a shrine within a temple or church. It also refers to a sacred place of pilgrimage.
The Latin word sanctum is the neuter form of the adjective "holy".
Sanctum is a band from Sweden formed in 1994. Their music is often classified as industrial or electronic, and combines elements of orchestral and contemporary music. Lately experimental music has become a dominant influence. Sanctum originally consisted of four members, Jan Carleklev, Marika Kante, Håkan Paulsson and Lena Robért. The singer Lena Robért and the cellist Marika Kante left the band in 2001. Nowadays Jan Carleklev and Håkan Paulsson continue with the help of guest vocalists.
Sanctum has played shows in Europé and the US, for example at Maschinenfest, Cornerstone Festival and Wave-Gotik-Treffen. During Sanctum shows a video live-mix is provided by the video artist Ulrika Carlsson.
Paulsson and Carleklev also spend their time in Counterblast.
Sanctum is a 2011 Australian-American 3D disaster survival film produced by Relativity Media with FilmNation Entertainment and Wayfare Entertainment, directed by Alister Grierson with music by David Hirschfelder and written by John Garvin and Andrew Wight. It stars Richard Roxburgh, Rhys Wakefield, Alice Parkinson, Dan Wyllie and Ioan Gruffudd. Wight also produced the film, with James Cameron (creator of Avatar and Titanic) as executive producer. The film was released in cinemas on 4 February 2011 in the US by Universal Pictures. The film received predominantly negative reviews from critics in the US and it earned $108.6 million on a $30 million budget. It also received a AACTA Award nomination for Best Visual Effects. Universal Studios Home Entertainment released Sanctum on DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and Blu-ray 3D on 7 June 2011.
Usage examples of "sanctum".
I regret that I have spent my life until now without knowing that a grimoire is a book of magic spells, or that an adytum is the inner sanctum of a temple.
There was an eavesdropper to all of the foregoing Conant, squatting behind his great desk in the vault, where he had his sanctum sanctorum, knew nothing of it.
Spiritum sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem: qui ex Patre Filioque procedit.
Let us leave this den of murder, and have a glass of our home-made frontignac in our own Sanctum.
He wondered if Bardo was in his sanctum now, perhaps rehearsing a sermon for the ceremony, perhaps swiving some bright-eyed godling whom he was personally instructing in the delights of submitting to the Way.
These occupants presently being limited to Gordian, Nimec, and Megan Breen, who had convened in this high-tech sanctum sanctorurn to see what they could make of Brazil.
Long before Madam Marsh had returned to her sanctum, Marian was seated under a laurestinus in the garden, nursing her new baby with the most affectionate solicitude.
Sanctum, and dispelling the habitual gloom of a College Hospitium, what chance would the sectarians of Wesley, or the infatuated followers even of that arch rhapsodist, Irving, have with the attractive eloquence and sound reasoning of true wit?
You sound like a sancta, speaking no word but that it has to do with the Matra ei Filho!
The Premia Sancta and Premio Sancto did not always agreeor so snippets of gossip saidbut in this they were united: stillborn children or infants who died were not worth mourning.
Premia Sancta and Premio Sancto, and even the lowliest initiatas and initiatos, but newly admitted to orders, who were nonetheless, because they served the Matra ei Filho, better than everyone else.
Matra ei Filho: His Grace the Duke, who gave order to the duchy, or their Honored Eminences the Premia Sancta and Premio Sancto, who gave order to the Holy Ecclesia, which claimed primacy over all the myriad smaller Sanctias and shrines scattered throughout the city and the duchy.
One day everyone in Tira Virte, possibly even the Premio Sancto and Premia Sancta, would do what he askedor toldthem to do.
White as her linen robe, the Premia Sancta kissed her fingertips, then pressed them to her heart in token tribute to the blessed Duchess Jesminia.
Serranos have been elevated quite enough, grazzo, with Zaragosa as Lord Limner, Caterin as Premia Sancta, and Gitanna in my bed!