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sacellum

/suh-kel-uhm, -sel-/US // səˈkɛl əm, -ˈsɛl- //

囊状体,囊状物,囊膜,囊状细胞

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural sa·cel·la [suh-kel-uh, -sel-uh]. /səˈkɛl ə, -ˈsɛl ə/.

    • : a small chapel, as a monument within a church.
    • : a shrine open to the sky.

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Examples

  • This is the portal of its temple, through which alone we can gain access to the sacellum where its aporrheta are concealed.

  • In the early days of Rome many gentes had each their own sacellum for the performance of their religious rites.

  • On the south slope of the latter are remains of a small temple or sacellum described by St Jerome.

  • These two appellations we have already found in the preceding quotations to be capellula and sacellum.

  • The gens had its own sacellum or chapel, and its own sacra or religious rites.