Relic
['relɪk] or ['rɛlɪk]
Definition
(noun.) an antiquity that has survived from the distant past.
Typed by Edwina--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion; a remnant.
(n.) The body from which the soul has departed; a corpse; especially, the body, or some part of the body, of a deceased saint or martyr; -- usually in the plural when referring to the whole body.
(n.) Hence, a memorial; anything preserved in remembrance; as, relics of youthful days or friendships.
Typist: Stephanie
Definition
n. that which is left after loss or decay of the rest: a corpse (gener. pl.): (R.C.) any personal memorial of a reputed saint to be held in reverence as an incentive to faith and piety: a memorial a souvenir: a monument.—n. Rel′ic-mong′er one who traffics in relics.
Typed by Evangeline
Examples
- Daylight developing soon followed, and the dark room, as far as the kodaker was concerned, took its proper place as a relic of the dark ages. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They hastened to preserve the relic. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She remembered Gerty's words: I know him--he will help you; and her mind clung to them as a sick person might cling to a healing relic. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was not George's relic. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The relic-hunter battered at these persistently, and sweated profusely over his work. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Who is not familiar with the chipped flint arrow-heads that the farmer so often turns up with his plow as a relic of the period when Americans were red-skinned instead of white? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We have already noted the earlier adventures of this venerable relic before the days of Muhammad in chap. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But isn't this relic matter a little overdone? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But the relic that touched us most was the plain old sword of that stout Crusader, Godfrey of Bulloigne--King Godfrey of Jerusalem. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I commit you, my kind nurse, to your uncle's care; to yours I entrust the dearest relic of my better self. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This relic was long ago carried away to Genoa. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We brought not a relic from Ephesus! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Great Salt Lake of Utah is a relic of a great body of water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Near the wall stood a fragment of sculptured stone--a monkish relic--once, perhaps, the base of a cross. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He thrust me into that dark hiding-place--a relic of old days, known only to himself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yet they all had lived and died unconscious of the different fates awaiting their relics. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In a tool-shed at the bottom of the garden, lay the relics of building-materials, left by masons lately employed to repair a part of the premises. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Nay, tell me how you class your wealth of books The drifted relics of all time. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- These relics have a history then? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Many relics of the inhabitants have been found in these cliff dwellings, although we cannot tell how they lived, for the region is now rainless and therefore destitute of food plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There is no hint of an enemy or competitor to them in the relics we find of their world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But there was no magic in the relics and little conviction about the chanting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Miss Havisham had settled down, I hardly knew how, upon the floor, among the faded bridal relics with which it was strewn. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- All these relics gave to the third storey of Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine of memory. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There was nothing else to do, and so every body went to hunting relics. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They are relics of the grandeur of Genoa's palmy days--the days when she was a great commercial and maritime power several centuries ago. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how--these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- These people have a somewhat singular taste in the matter of relics. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That bronze relics were found apparently of anterior manufacture to any made of iron, was doubtless due to the destruction of the iron by that great consumer--oxygen. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They laid them back on the lifeless breast,--dust to dust,--poor mournful relics of early dreams, which once made that cold heart beat so warmly! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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