sacrarium

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sa=crar=i=um

CIDE DICTIONARY

sacrarium, n. [L., fr. sacer sacred.].

•  A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity.  [1913 Webster]
•  The adytum of a temple.  Gwilt.  [1913 Webster]
•  In a Christian church, the sanctuary.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sacrarium, n. (pl. sacraria)
1 the sanctuary of a church.
2 RC Ch. a piscina.
3 Rom. Antiq. a shrine; the room (in a house) containing the penates.

Etymology

L f. sacer sacri holy

THESAURUS

sacrarium

Easter sepulcher, Lady chapel, adytum, ambry, apse, baptistery, blindstory, chancel, chantry, chapel, chapel of ease, chapel royal, choir, cloisters, confessional, confessionary, crypt, dagoba, delubrum, diaconicon, diaconicum, holy of holies, holy place, naos, nave, oratorium, oratory, porch, presbytery, reliquaire, reliquary, rood loft, rood stair, rood tower, sacellum, sacrament chapel, sacristy, sanctuary, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, school chapel, shrine, side chapel, stupa, tope, transept, triforium, vestry

ROGET THESAURUS

sacrarium

Temple

N temple, place of worship, house of God, house of prayer, temple, cathedral, minster, church, kirk, chapel, meetinghouse, bethel, tabernacle, conventicle, basilica, fane, holy place, chantry, oratory, synagogue, mosque, marabout, pantheon, pagoda, joss house, dogobah, tope, kiosk, kiack, masjid, parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe, Vatican, bishop's palace, Lambeth, altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy, sacrarium, communion table, holy table, Lord's table, table of the Lord, pyx, baptistery, font, piscina, stoup, aumbry, sedile, reredos, rood loft, rood screen, chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher, stall, pew, pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis, credence, baldachin, baldacchino, apse, belfry, chapter house, presbytery, anxious-bench, anxious-seat, diaconicum, jube, mourner's bench, mourner's seat, cloisters, churchyard, monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister, claustral, cloistered, monastic, monasterial, conventual, ne vile fano, there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.