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‖ reliquiæ, n. pl.|rɪˈlɪkwɪiː|
[L., f. reliqu-us remaining, f. re- re- 2 e + liq-, linquĕre to leave.]
1. Remains of any kind; spec. in Geol. remains of early animals or plants.
1654E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quix. iii. vii. 114 A sort of these Theeves are now redivivous, (the Reliquiæ I believe of Knight-Errantry) who goe by the name of Spirits. 1840Trans. Geol. Soc. VI. 444 No distinction..can be observed, whereby the human can be separated from the other reliquiæ. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxi. (1856) 165 In a word, the numberless reliquiæ of a winter resting-place. 1867Murchison Siluria xix. (ed. 4) 465 The Drift are simply the reliquiæ of the chief masses of gold. Ibid. xx. 485 We have in the Silurian strata fossil reliquiæ of such soft animals as Starfish. 1887A. M. Brown Anim. Alkal. Introd. 15 The ptomaines..are the vital reliquiæ or residue material.. which may become the cause of disease.
2. Bot. (See quot.)
1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1839) 113 The withered remains of leaves, which, not being articulated with the stem, cannot fall off, but decay upon it, have been called reliquiæ.
3. Literary remains; unpublished or uncollected writings.
1933Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Nov. 746/2 These reliquiae of Lytton Strachey, collected from periodicals and other sources..belong to all times of his life as a writer. 1948Mind LVII. 517 Scarcely less important..are the Jena manuscripts [of Hegel] published partly by Lasson in 1923 and partly by Hoffmeister in 1931–2. Armed with these reliquiae a scholar could approach the making of a commentary with fair confidence.
Hence reˈliquial a. nonce-wd.
1888G. Macdonald Elect Lady xxx. 284 His interest in philology, prosody, history, and reliquial humanity. |