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Definition of Sacellum
1. n. An unroofed space consecrated to a divinity.
Definition of Sacellum
1. Noun. A small chapel, as a monument within a church ¹
2. Noun. (''ancient Rome'') A shrine open to the sky, sometimes used for sacrificial purposes, or in honor of the divine ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sacellum
1. a memorial chapel [n SACELLA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sacellum
Literary usage of Sacellum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages by John BRITTON (1838)
"(Survey, temp. Henry VIII., in Bayley's Hist, of the Tower, pt. i. app. p. xix.)
S sacellum, a monumental chapel within a church ..."
2. The history of initiation, 3 courses of lectures by George Oliver (1829)
"to have been the illuminated sacellum into which the aspirant was introduced at
the close of his initiation. t Maur. Ind. Ant. vol. ii. p. 281. ..."
3. Archaeologia Aeliana: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity (1843)
"Its place will have been the sacellum of a headquarters, where the cult of ...
XA, t), from the sacellum of the west headquarters.43 This has been a tall ..."
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