feretrum

Jupiter Feretrius, from the trophy carried on the feretrum, one of the Greek words which at that time still existed in great numbers in Latin: or, as others say, it is the surname of the Thundering

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Sanctum corpus, ac deinde post annorum tempus trecentorum Assyrios abstulisse feretrum cum ipso corpore sancto in Edissam ciuitatem

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Sanctum corpus, ac deinde post annorum tempus trecentorum Assyrios abstulisse feretrum cum ipso corpore sancto in Edissam ciuitatem

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Now where the women went, I cannot tell: for I finde written, that _populus totius vrbis præcedebat feretrum_; wher _populus_, as I take it, signifieth the whole route of men and women.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

The bones themselves were deposited in a portable _feretrum_, so that they might be easily carried in procession.

The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See 1896

We find simple derivatives such as the German _Bahre_, English _bier_ (French _bière_, borrowed), and also φέρετρον and _feretrum_, as well as _ferculum_ (a litter).

The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour 1861

The god to whom they are offered is called Jupiter Feretrius, according to some, from the trophy being carried upon a _feretrum_, or bier, as it is called in the Greek tongue, which then was much mixed with the Latin; but according to others, it is an attribute of Jupiter the Thunderer, for the Romans call striking _ferire_.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839

Pious munificence provided him a _loculus, _ a _feretrum_ or shrine; built for him

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Coming therefore that night to matins, we found the great Shrine (_feretrum magnum_) raised upon the Altar, but empty; covered all over with white doeskin leather, fixed to the wood with silver nails; but one panel of the Shrine was left down below, and resting thereon, beside its old column of the Church, the Loculus with the Sacred Body yet lay where it was wont.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Pious munificence provided him a _loculus_, a _feretrum_ or shrine; built for him a wooden chapel, a stone temple, ever widening and growing by new pious gifts; -- such the overflowing heart feels it a blessedness to solace itself by giving.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838