shrine

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SHRINE, noun [Latin scrinium.] A case or box; particularly applied to a case in which sacred things are deposited. Hence we hear much of shrines for relics. Come, offer at my shrine, and I will help thee. Shak.
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