Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete or archaic spelling of relic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See relic.

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  • noun Alternative form of relic.

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Examples

  • La camionnette démarre avec fracas et la jeune fille ferme derrière elle la lourde porte, relique de temps moins sûrs.

    Jules 2009

  • La camionnette démarre avec fracas et la jeune fille ferme derrière elle la lourde porte, relique de temps moins sûrs.

    Jules 2009

  • That movie is in aramean, all part of it are based on very old original relique of scriptures, also the part where the wife of the governor order a jewish woman to weep off the blood of Christ with precious drapery for her, it is part of the annal an darchive about what we have of historical documents for what happened.

    Robert De Niro Joining Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Here he took a small golden reliquary, which was suspended from his neck next to his shirt by a chain of the same metal, and having kissed it devoutly, continued — “Never was false oath sworn on this most sacred relique, but it was avenged within the year.”

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • Moreover, it was not upon this relique which I then swore, but upon another fragment of the true cross which I got from the Grand Seignior, weakened in virtue, doubtless, by sojourning with infidels.

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • Christendom; and I will swear to observe them upon the holy relique which

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • The stain, and that a teastain (the overcautelousness of the masterbilker here, as usual, signing the page away), marked it off on the spout of the moment as a genuine relique of ancient

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Whoever became possessor of a Bead, preserved it as a sacred relique; and had it been the Chaplet of thrice-blessed St. Francis himself, it could not have been disputed with greater vivacity.

    The Monk 2004

  • “It is a striking relique of antiquity,” replied the confessor.

    The Italian 2004

  • Olivia, and she preserved it as a sacred relique of her favourite recluse.

    The Italian 2004

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