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/səˈkɹɛəɹi.əm/ · noun
(historical) In Ancient Rome, a place where sacred objects were kept, either in a temple (the adytum) or in a house (holding the penates).
2016, Martin Pousson, Black Sheep Boy, Los Angeles: Rare Bird Books, Part I, “Wanted Man,” The bathroom looked like a radiant sacristy, the sink a piscine, the drain a sacrarium.
The hay-trusser deposited his basket by the font, went up the nave till he reached the altar-rails, and opening the gate entered the sacrarium, where he seemed to feel a sense of the strangeness for a moment; then he knelt upon the footpace.
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Sacrarium means (historical) In Ancient Rome, a place where sacred objects were kept, either in a temple (the adytum) or in a house (holding the penates).
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
2016, Martin Pousson, Black Sheep Boy, Los Angeles: Rare Bird Books, Part I, “Wanted Man,” The bathroom looked like a radiant sacristy, the sink a piscine, the drain a sacrarium.
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