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Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like. Too weak the sacred shrine guard. Byron.

To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.

See Enshrine.

The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.

ssion. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession. [Written also baldachino, baldaquin, etc.]

Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.

It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas à Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made.

To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A small chapel or shrine.

mob. To fool the crowd with glorious lies. Tennyson. He went not with the crowd to see a shrine. Dryden.

s and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. Motley. My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. Tennyson.

e earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body. And you may carve a shrine about my dust. Tennyson.

To adorn with glittering embellishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope.

A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints. Mollett.

or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure. "Shrines of imaged saints." J. Warton.

Also used figuratively. Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride, With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Gray. Incense tree, the name of several balsamic trees of the genus Bursera (or Icica) mostly tropical American. The gum resin is used for incense. In Jamaica the Chrysobalanus Icaco, a tree related to the plums, i…

eing profaned or corrupted; sacred; holy; as, inviolable honor or chastity; an inviolable shrine. He tried a third, a tough, well-chosen spear, The inviolable body stood sincere. Dryden.

One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer. P. Plowman.

The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life. Shak. The days of the years of my pilgrimage. Gen. xlvii. 9.