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sacellum

[ suh-kel-uhm, -sel- ]

noun

plural sacella
  1. a small chapel, as a monument within a church.
  2. (in ancient Rome) a shrine open to the sky.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sacellum1

1800–10; < Latin: shrine, derivative of sacer holy, sacred; for formation castellum
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On the south slope of the latter are remains of a small temple or sacellum described by St Jerome.

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Ad hoc sacellum Ara Cœli a festo nativitatis domini usque ad festum Epiphani� magna populi frequentia invisitur et colitur in presepio Christi nati infantuli simulacrum ex ole� ligno apud montem olivarum Hierosolymis a quodam devoto Minorita sculptum eo animo, ut ad hoc festum celebrandum deportaretur.

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Sacellum, sā-sel′um, n. a little sanctuary, a small uncovered place consecrated to a divinity: a canopied altar-tomb:—pl.

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The gens had its own sacellum or chapel, and its own sacra or religious rites.

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Splendidum etiam illud sacellum westmonasterij, magno sumptu atque magnificentia ab eodem est conditum.

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