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Definition of Relics
1. relic [n] - See also: relic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Relics
Literary usage of Relics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1893)
"The prelate of the place sometimes ordained a fast to implore God that they might
not be cheated with the relics of saints, which he sometimes purchased for ..."
2. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1835)
"He collected with religious care the facts from bis brethren, especially from
the conductor of these relics from England. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"As for the Far East, the famous story of the distribution of the relics of Buddha,
an incident which is believed to have taken place immediately after his ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"relics.—The word relia comes from the Latin reliquiae (the counterpart of the Greek
... The veneration of relics, in fact, is to some extent a primitive ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The advance to superstitious veneration occurred principally in the period of
Constantine; and the bringing of the relics of Timothy, Andrew, ..."
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