relicary
relicary is the obsolete form of reliquary.
Meaning of reliquary
Noun
reliquary (plural reliquaries)
- A container to hold or display religious relics.
- “… There is an ivory virgin of the fourteenth century. I once found a buyer for that piece, but the old boy would not sell it.[…]The other piece—the one that concerns us—is known as the Borgia reliquary.”1935, Francis Beeding, “4/1”, in The Norwich Victims
- An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.
- A person who owes a balance.
Forms of relicary
| plural | relicaries |
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Questions about relicary
- What is relicary the obsolete form of?
- Relicary is the obsolete form of reliquary.
Words near relicary in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: relicary (page history and authors); reliquary (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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