Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Reliquary
A reliquary is a receptacle for relics. Many of today's invented meanings were close to the real meaning - which I suspected might happen. Nevertheless, there was still a good range of meanings which had nothing to do with relics at all. I enjoyed each of the meanings and was very happy to see that a few new people have been joining the game. Welcome to you all. I hope you keep coming back. The Mad Fishicist received lots of votes on the poll today, thanks to the new "Blog of Note" status. Well done, TMF!
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a chain of prayer beads made from marble. Used most often by the Janj sect of Hinduism in India. the marble is most often a pearl gray or black and rubbed smooth with use.
Reliquary is the technical name for the place (chair, corner, carpet square) used to place children in time out.
Religuary is letting go. Forgiving and forgetting. No more grudges.
The bitter old man, hovering near death, forgave his son, his brothers, and several friends. His reliquary heart felt so much lighter and he went in peace.
During the Crusades there was a flurry over the recovery of Biblical Christian artifacts from Muslim Control. The most sought after items were those relating directly to Christ himself. Pieces of burial shroud or bits of wood from his crucifixion cross fetched the highest price back in Europe. Sadly for our Medieval Antiques Roadshow junkies, most, if not all were fakes worth nothing more than a little extra income for under paid crusaders. These items were often kept in ornately decorated reliquary boxes. (Oh, my college history professor would be so proud!!)
Reliquary are fossilized tunnels found along Scotland's eastern shores that snake their way inland. They are neither caverns or caves, but rather tubes formed as a result of volcanic eruptions millions of years ago. Legend has it that earlier forms of the Loch Ness-type monsters would tunnel into these reliquarys and essentially hybernate while tides go in and out around them. Eventually reliquarys evolved into an ocean animal that later moved inland via rivers and then hybernating under deep lakes.
Reliquary... a term used for an absolutely ridiculous natured person. Some things a reliquary person would do is draw on there face with a permanent marker, climb on walls, people and furniture on purpose to get in trouble. Or eat flaming hot spices out of the bottle ,and bite there toe nails instead of cutting them.Often used in a sentence like this "what a reliquary child he is to paint his face like a camel with frosting and syrup".
Reliquary is an elevator that is red and shiny.It is ran by a ghost named LARRY. At night it goes up and down the hotel like crazy. Some people think its just teenagers messing with the grand hotel!But one night a little boy came and all of the sudden he heard BOO and it was his grandmother standing with LARRY!
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A Reliquary is the room hidden deep in the basement of a museum where they hold valuable relics that are just not suitable to put on display in the museum itself. Relics such as giant phalic symbols from Easter Island. Shrunken penises from Pygmy tribes in Africa and the fossilised testicles from a T-Rex.
Museums are full reliquary's. Reliquary's are rooms where relics are placed on display.
Reliquary: A person who is very noble and very gracious. A reliquary would sit at the table, and not spill their food on their face, unlike other pople... like the king and the queen.
a rare breed of cat that smells like a mouse when it eats cheese. immortalized in this 19th century nursery rhyme:
the cassowary
wasn't sanitary
when he ate an unripe berry
the tooth fairy
rode a dromedary
to the fair in county kerry
but the reliquary
banned from eating dairy
really smelled like tom and jerry
(just another tale from canterbury)
Reliquary puts me in the mind of reliquarium, the fish tank your 10 year old never remembers to clean. The one containing the fish he never remembered to feed. Ew.
A reliquery is the a question that a celebrity loves to answer. They relish the thought of answering such questions and provide sound bytes. :)
A reliquary is a holy hermit who lives in an old quarry. He is stoned quite often.
First off, very nice blog.
I am concerned greatly with the
use or I should say, misuse of words.
It is now not uncommon for two people
who speak English to never actually
understand each other in words. When
did the time come in which we stopped
expressing ourselves by verbal
communication?
Not to divulge into other subjects;
Reliquary is for keeping (or really
for displaying) sacred relics.
A relic basically meaning a object
or even a idea that has survived
the passage of time. Sacred meaning
a object (or like I said, an idea)
made or declared to be holy, that
be something worthy of value.
Anything but this just is a
misconception quite clearly.
Reliquary is not, as mentioned in
a comment here, the word relinquish.
Again, people shouldn't use words
they are unsure of. A dictionary
to be the new bible? :)
-Dante
part of a rather mickey mouse attempt on the part of the catholic church to assert that the body (otherwise demonized in the majority of christian theology) can be sacralized through the incessant denial of its urges. of course, the obvious implication is that only in death (the ultimate attainment of self-abnegation) can the body be transformed into something holy.
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