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Webster 1913 Edition

(shrīn)

Noun.

[OE.

schrin

, AS.

scrīn

, from L.

scrinium

a case, chest, box.]

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

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

Too weak the sacred

shrine

guard.

Byron.

A place or object hallowed from its history or associations;

as, a

shrine

of art

Verb.

To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine.

“Shrined in his sanctuary.”

Milton.

Noun.

[L. scrinium.] A case or box; particularly applied to a case in which sacred things are deposited. Hence we hear much of shrines for relics.

Come, offer at my shrine, and I will help thee. Shak.