Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman antiquity, a temple or sanctuary, by some scholars believed to have contained a basin or fountain in which persons coming to sacrifice washed. But the actual distinction between delubrum and templum is uncertain.
- noun In eccles. arch., a church furnished with a font.
- noun A font or baptismal basin.
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Examples
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A high brow like unto the bright heavens, coeli pulcherrima plaga, Frons ubi vivit honor, frons ubi ludit amor, white and smooth like the polished alabaster, a pair of cheeks of vermilion colour, in which love lodgeth; [4914] Amor qui mollibus genis puellae pernoctas: a coral lip, suaviorum delubrum, in which
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Massa is an ancient city, the fame of whose celebrated temple (delubrum) of Juno
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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His credulity is shewn by the belief he held, that the name of a place called Ainnit in Sky was the same as the Anaitidis delubrum in Lydia.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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M'Queen had laid stress on the name given to the place by the country people, Ainnit; and added, 'I knew not what to make of this piece of antiquity, till I met with the Anaitidis delubrum in Lydia, mentioned by Pausanias and the elder Pliny.'
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767
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His credulity is shewn by the belief he held, that the name of a place called Ainnit in Sky was the same as the _Anaitidis delubrum_ in Lydia.
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767
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M’Queen had laid stress on the name given to the place by the country people, Ainnit; and added, ‘I knew not what to make of this piece of antiquity, till I met with the Anaitidis delubrum in Lydia, mentioned by Pausanias and the elder Pliny.’
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Mr. M'Queen had laid stress on the name given to the place by the country people, ” Ainnit; and added, 'I knew not what to make of this piece of antiquity, till I met with the Anaitidis delubrum in Lydia, mentioned by Pausanias and the elder Pliny.'
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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The relations of the missionaries, who visited Tartary in the thirteenth century, (see the seventh volume of the Histoire des Voyages,) express the popular language and opinions; Zingis is styled the son of God, &c. &c.] [Footnote 8: Nec templum apud eos visitur, aut delubrum, ne tugurium quidem culmo tectum cerni usquam potest; sed gladius Barbarico ritu humi figitur nudus, eumque ut Martem regionum quas circumcircant praesulem verecundius colunt.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The relations of the missionaries, who visited Tartary in the thirteenth century, (see the seventh volume of the Histoire des Voyages,) express the popular language and opinions; Zingis is styled the son of God, &c. &c.] 8 Nec templum apud eos visitur, aut delubrum, ne tugurium quidem culmo tectum cerni usquam potest; sed gladius Barbarico ritu humi figitur nudus, eumque ut Martem regionum quas circumcircant praesulem verecundius colunt.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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