Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the early church: A chest for receiving offerings of money.
- n. A box or casket in which the eucharist was carried.
- n. A name given by St. Gregory of Tours to an altar composed of three marble tablets, one resting horizontally on the other two, which stand upright on the floor. Walcott, Sacred Archæol.
- n. [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of asiphonate lamelli-branch mollusks, typical of the family Arcidæ (which see); the ark-shells proper.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the type genus of the family
Arcidae , including ark shells and blood clams.
WordNet 3.0
- n. type genus of the family Arcidae: ark shells and blood clams
Examples
“To the story of St. Dominic (which had already been treated in a masterly manner by Fra Guglielmo, in the "arca" at Bologna, and by”
“He cited a Mexican saying: "when the arca [vault] comes open, even the most honest will sin.”
The Wall Street Journal: Chile Rattled on Path to Development
“It is one of a list of such terms, including saccula, cella, arca, thesaurus, forulus, loculumenta, cubilia, and scrinium (to name but a few) ,22 that have been recently plumbed to reveal the depth and continuity of the lineage of architectural mnemonics in the craft of Western thought.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“Note 303: To contemplate the heavenly Jerusalem, Augustine and Hugh of St. Victor withdrew in meditation to the secret cubiculo/arca contained in their hearts. back”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“Within the mental image of an arca Hugh nested properties of a storage chest, an apothecary's shop, the Ark of the Covenant, the Ark of Noah, and a walled city, equipping a student with a model of extended techniques for mnemonic meditation.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“Note 151: De arca Noe morali, 1, 2; 176, 622B, as cited by Carruthers, Book of Memory, 44.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“Within the most secret cell of your memory, the arca or cubiculum of your heart, your private meditations were trained toward the ethical objective of sancta memoria — to envision an ideal condition for living among others, and to translate from this ideal a practice of everyday life.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“First, Hugh introduces the arca as being contained within oneself: "Children, knowledge [sapientia] is a treasury [thesaurus] and your heart is its strongbox [archa].”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“Hugh of St. Victor, "De arca Noe morali," 4. 9.680B”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“If you looked at the volume in the morning on arca it was something like a hundred thousand.”
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