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Penetralia   Listen
noun
Penetralia  n. pl.  
1.
The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or place, especially of a temple or palace.
2.
Hidden things or secrets; privacy; sanctuary; as, the sacred penetralia of the home.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Penetralia" Quotes from Famous Books



... interspace[obs3], subsoil, substratum; intrados. contents &c. 190; substance, pith, marrow; backbone &c. (center) 222; heart, bosom, breast; abdomen; vitals, viscera, entrails, bowels, belly, intestines, guts, chitterings[obs3], womb, lap; penetralia[Lat], recesses, innermost recesses; cave &c. (concavity) 252. V. be inside &c. adj.; within &c. adv. place within, keep within; inclose &c. (circumscribe) 229; intern; imbed &c. (insert) 300. Adj. interior, internal; inner, inside, inward, intraregarding[obs3]; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence. Why should he betake himself to a subterranean crypt, as if it were the only holy ground in all the world which he had left unprofaned? The obedient soul ...
— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau

... was looking for something, in the penetralia of the model. "Oh, I know," said she. "It's in behind the glass water.... I was looking for the piece.... I'll take the glass water out." She did so, and its missing fraction was found, stowed away behind the main cataract, a portion of ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan



Words linked to "Penetralia" :   interior, inside



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