adyt
adyt noun: the innermost sanctum of a temple, in which oracles are announced.
Noun
adyt (plural adyts)
- The innermost sanctum of a temple, in which oracles are announced.
- […] they afterwards broke a matter of twenty cubits, and attempted with their own hands to put the adyt and sacred places in a blaze.1733, Flavius Josephus, The Works, page 708
- Forever freed
The bondage of the flesh, they tread, at last,
The inmost aisles of this elysian grove,
To enter in the vasty House of Dreams,
Unto the adyt of the mystic fane,
Where, in a golden drapery of light,
Is Beauty shrined, supernal, chaste, […]1907, William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease, The Pacific Monthly: A Magazine of Education and Progress, page 709
Examples of adyt in a sentence
- But he refused to abandon his question while there was yet a room, an adyt, a tower to be searched, or vault uncovered in shadowed depths.1980, James William Hjort, Ebon roses, jewelled skulls, page 34:
- Something reeled drunkenly in the adyt of his mind, a vertigo.2006, M. A. Foster, The Book of The Ler:
Forms of adyt
| plural | adyts |
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Origin of adyt
From Latin adytum.
Questions about adyt
- What does adyt mean?
- Adyt means the innermost sanctum of a temple, in which oracles are announced.
- How do you use adyt in a sentence?
- But he refused to abandon his question while there was yet a room, an adyt, a tower to be searched, or vault uncovered in shadowed depths.
- What part of speech is adyt?
- Adyt is a noun.
- What is the plural of adyt?
- The plural of adyt is adyts.
Words near adyt in the dictionary
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