asyla

Here in the fane and in the grove, sacred and therefore inviolable, with its rights of sanctuary which it possessed in common with those temples which the Greeks call "asyla," the soldiers were walking about perfectly at their ease, not having yet heard that a state of war existed or that swords had been drawn and blood shed.

The History of Rome, Vol. V 1905

When Reade tilted against prison abuses and the abuses of private asyla, or when Dickens rode down on the law of Chancery as administered in his day, or when Thackeray scourged snobbery and selfishness in society, they were all well within the limits of this rule.

My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

There were to be six of these legalized asyla, three on the east of

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

They attacked and plundered the asyla and sacred places which had hitherto been unapproached, such as those of

Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839