Definition of relic

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Relic (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..

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Relic :: Relic (n.) Hence, a memorial; anything preserved in remembrance; as, relics of youthful days or friendships..
Antiquary :: Antiquary (n.) One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity..
Sensualism :: Sensualism (n.) The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism..
Relik :: Relik (n.) Relic.
Feretory :: Feretory (n.) A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints..
Paleolithic :: Paleolithic (a.) Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone implements. The Paleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the Stone Age; the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings..
Reliction :: Reliction (n.) A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession..
Dereliction :: Dereliction (n.) The state of being left or abandoned.
Poureliche :: Poureliche (adv.) Poorly.
Derelict :: Derelict (a.) Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands..
Dereliction :: Dereliction (n.) A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained..
Shrine :: Shrine (n.) A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint..
Questionary :: Questionary (n.) One who makes it his business to seek after relics and carry them about for sale.
Kitchen Middens :: Kitchen middens () Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians..
Derelict :: Derelict (n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea..
Voodooism :: Voodooism (n.) A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism..
Amulet :: Amulet (n.) An ornament, gem, or scroll, or a package containing a relic, etc., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters. [Also used figuratively.].
Relicly :: Relicly (adv.) In the manner of relics.
Paleolith :: Paleolith (n.) A relic of the Paleolithic era.
Remain :: Remain (n.) That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
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