votive

• My scented candle of choice is one votive -- black rose sold in Chicago at a hippie type candle emporium called Wax Man. —  Apartment Therapy Main
• When, six or seven centuries later, a Roman governor of Egypt, or a Roman merchant from the same province, singled out this work of art, to be shipped to Rome as a votive offering for the Temple of Isis, ignorant of the historical value of its mutilations, he had the nose and the uræus carefully restored. —  Pagan and Christian Rome
• Even granting that we know the exact level of the surface of the Acropolis in classical times at every point, we certainly do not know all the objects--votive offerings and the like--set up in various places. —  The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
• The coffin was received beneath what was called a votive monument,--a column one hundred feet in height, with an immense gilded globe upon the top, surmounted by a gilded eagle twenty feet high. —  France in the Nineteenth Century
• It stands so prettily that the whole lecture-room looks like a votive chapel of the deity. —  Roman life in the days of Cicero

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