Adyt

Quick meaning: Adyt is a noun meaning (archaic, poetic) The innermost sanctum of a temple, in which oracles are announced.

Meaning

(archaic, poetic) The innermost sanctum of a temple, in which oracles are announced.

Example Sentences

[…] they afterwards broke a matter of twenty cubits, and attempted with their own hands to put the adyt and sacred places in a blaze.

The door was open and there were more outside. He didn't dare look. His mind felt fogged, dulled by something, a drug. Cretus wasn't sure. Something reeled drunkenly in the adyt of his mind, a vertigo. Had it been that simple? Had it worked?

Forever freed The bondage of the flesh, they tread, at last, The inmost aisles of this elysian grove, To enter in the vasty House of Dreams, Unto the adyt of the mystic fane, Where, in a golden drapery of light, Is Beauty shrined, supernal, chaste, […]

But he refused to abandon his question while there was yet a room, an adyt, a tower to be searched, or vault uncovered in shadowed depths. He called forth loudly again and again. But none responded to his words save the rats who scurried to seek out other places of hiding, vanishing into the shadows […]

Word Forms

• adyts

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include adytum, adoratory, oracle, anthem, pylon, devachan.

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