Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl.) A kind of transparent reliquary with an ornamental top.
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- noun A kind of
transparent reliquary with anornamental top .
Etymologies
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Old French filatiere, philatiere. See phylactery.
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Examples
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There was a philatory (a transparent reliquary) which contained all the bones of another saint, whom I've forgotten, but the bones were stacked in an asthetic way and wound with gold and pearls in a shrine (reliquary shaped like a house) made of glass and gold.
Reliquaries: Saints Preserve(d for) Us! Heather McDougal 2007
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There was a philatory (a transparent reliquary) which contained all the bones of another saint, whom I've forgotten, but the bones were stacked in an asthetic way and wound with gold and pearls in a shrine (reliquary shaped like a house) made of glass and gold.
Archive 2007-05-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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