delubrum

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
His credulity is shewn by the belief he held, that the name of a place called Ainnit in Sky was the same as the _Anaitidis delubrum_ in Lydia.

View all »
Definitions (3)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

  1. In Roman antiquity, a temple or sanctuary, by some scholars believed to have contained a basin or fountain in which persons coming to sacrifice washed. But the actual distinction between delubrum and templum is uncertain.
  2. In eccles. arch., a church furnished with a font.
  3. A font or baptismal basin.

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

Examples (3)

  • M'Queen had laid stress on the name given to the place by the country people, Ainnit; and added, 'I knew not what to make of this piece of antiquity, till I met with the Anaitidis delubrum in Lydia, mentioned by Pausanias and the elder Pliny.' —  The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
  • The relations of the missionaries, who visited Tartary in the thirteenth century, (see the seventh volume of the Histoire des Voyages,) express the popular language and opinions; Zingis is styled the son of God, &c. &c.] [Footnote 8: Nec templum apud eos visitur, aut delubrum, ne tugurium quidem culmo tectum cerni usquam potest; sed gladius Barbarico ritu humi figitur nudus, eumque ut Martem regionum quas circumcircant praesulem verecundius colunt. —  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
  • His credulity is shewn by the belief he held, that the name of a place called Ainnit in Sky was the same as the _Anaitidis delubrum_ in Lydia. —  Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776
 

Tags

delubrum hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 36 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Latin, a temple, shrine, sanctuary, prob. so called as the place of expiation; the literally sense is more obvious in Middle Latin delubrum, a baptismal font; from Latin deluere, wash off, cleanse, from de, away, + luere, wash.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

ill-fitting · widget · equivoque · ambitiousness · DEVELOPMENT

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

qualms · poofter · oh for heaven's sake · embodies · silence