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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
shrine       [shrahyn] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, shrined, shrin·ing.
–noun
1.a building or other shelter, often of a stately or sumptuous character, enclosing the remains or relics of a saint or other holy person and forming an object of religious veneration and pilgrimage.
2.any place or object hallowed by its history or associations: a historic shrine.
3.any structure or place consecrated or devoted to some saint, holy person, or deity, as an altar, chapel, church, or temple.
4.a receptacle for sacred relics; a reliquary.
–verb (used with object)
5.to enshrine.
[Origin: bef. 1000; ME schrine, OE scrīn (c. G Schrein, D schrijn) < L scrīnium case for books and papers]

—Related forms
shrineless, adjective
shrinelike, adjective
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shrine       (shrīn)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A place of religious devotion or commemoration, such as:
    1. a place where devotion is paid to a deity or deities, as in Shinto.
    2. the tomb of a saint or other venerated person.
    3. a location where an important event in the life of a holy person is thought to have occurred.
  2. A container or receptacle for sacred relics; a reliquary.
  3. A site hallowed by association with a revered person or object or with an important event: Independence Hall, shrine of American liberty.

tr.v.   shrined, shrin·ing, shrines
To enshrine.


[Middle English, from Old English scrīn, box, from Latin scrīnium, case for books or papers.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
shrine 
O.E. scrin "ark of the covenant, case for relics," from L. scrinium "case or box for keeping papers," of unknown origin. A Shriner (1884) is a member of the Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (est. 1872).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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shrine

noun
1. a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person 

verb
1. enclose in a shrine; "the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral" [syn: enshrine] 

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Shrine

Shrine\, n. Short for

Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, a secret order professedly originated by one Kalif Alu, a son-in-law of Mohammed, at Mecca, in the year of the Hegira 25 (about 646 a. d.) In the modern order, established in the United States in 1872, only Knights Templars or thirty-second degree Masons are eligible for admission, though the order itself is not Masonic.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Shrine

Shrine\ (shr[imac]n), n. [OE. schrin, AS. scr[=i]n, from L. scrinium a case, chest, box.]

1. A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.

2. Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like.

Too weak the sacred shrine guard. --Byron.

3. A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art.

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Shrine

Shrine\, v. t. To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine. "Shrined in his sanctuary." --Milton.

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