shrinen.
/ʃrʌɪn/, U.S. /ʃraɪn/ΘΚΠ
society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > shrine > [noun]
shrinec1000
memoryc1475
enchasement1651
society > faith > artefacts > furniture > Ark of the Covenant > [noun]
arkc825
shrinec1000
coffera1400
archea1450
cybory1484
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun]
shrinec1000
boist?c1225
busta1250
cofferc1300
coffinc1330
buist1393
boosta1400
pyx1609
pyxis1708
box1751
c1000 Ælfric Joshua iii. 8 Þa sacerdas, þa þe þæt scrin [L. arcam] berað.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xii. 6 Forþam þe he wæs þeof & hæfde scrin [L. loculos].
c1150 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 546/29 Archa, scrin.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 109 Þe schryne of þe testament [L. arcam testamenti].
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xiii. ix. (Tollem. MS.) Þe schryne of oure lorde [1582, the Arke].
1516 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 161 Item, in the compertas of Craufurdis ane standand bed, and ane schryne.
1560 Stirling Burgh Rec. (1887) I. 75 Ane schryne but the lid.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Shrine, a chest or cabinet.
2. proverbial.c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 553 Fare-wel shryne of whom þe seynt is oute.† c. figurative. An object of veneration. Obsolete.
a. The box, casket, or other repository in which the relics of a saint are preserved. Also, a tomb-like erection of rich workmanship, enclosing the relics of a saint.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > artefacts > portable shrines or relics > portable shrine > [noun]
shrinec1000
crystalc1330
feretoryc1330
scrinea1350
phylacteryc1384
sanctuaryc1386
monstrance1522
feretrum1536
reliquary1550
reliquaire1611
relicarya1661
chasse1670
enchâssure1716
mikoshi1727
sanctorium1816
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xi. 275 Þa gebrohte se bisceop ealle þa halgan ban on gelimplicum scrynum.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 426 Þa wolde se casere wyrcan him eallum gyldene scryn.
a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1070 Hi namen þære twa gildene scrines & .ix. seolferne.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 37/125 Þulke daye is bodi was in-to schrine i-bore.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 9851 Þulke ȝer al so Seint egwine at euesham in ssrine was verst ido.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vi. 48 I nolde fonge a ferþing for seynt Thomas schrine.
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 5592 Of schene schemerand gold as it a schrine ware.
c1420 Chron. Vilod. 4265 Byfore hurre shrene mekeliche he knelede doune.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert xxxviii Þe schrine..is..born a-boute on þe schulderis of princes and lordis.
1551 J. Williams Acct. Monastic Treasures (1836) 1 The defacinge and takinge downe of shrynes.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 ii. i. 66 There is a man that came blinde to S. Albones, and hath receiued his sight at his shrine.
a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) 677 The Miracles at the Shrines and Sepulchres of the holy Martyrs.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xlv. 455 The shrines of the apostles were guarded by miracles and invisible terrors.
1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 217 The exhibition of the relics took place..and as each shrine was elevated, every knee touched the earth.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 24 It was a national as well as a religious feeling that drew great multitudes to the shrine of Becket.
b. In extended application: A receptacle containing an object of religious veneration; occasionally a niche for sacred images.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > vessel (general) > shrine > [noun]
shrine1526
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xix. 24 A goldsmyth, which made silver schrynes [Gk. ναούς, L. ædes; Wyclif housis] for Diana.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 388 At all other times, [the crucifix] is not to be seen; seven persons having in their custody as many different keys of the shrine in which it is kept.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. vi. 159 She passed several shrines and images half hid among the shrubs and the cliffs.
1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Introd. 43 The bell of any famous saint..was enclosed in a shrine, made in its own form.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > quality of inspiring reverence > [noun] > object
relic?c1225
relica1400
shrinec1460
idol1484
icon1833
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1114 So excellent of bewte, þat she myȝt be shryne To all othir vymmen.
d. The part of a church in which a shrine stands. Cf. feretory n. 3.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > chapel > [noun] > for shrines
feretory1449
shrine1833
1833 J. Raine Brief Acct. Durham Cathedral 50 Let us now enter the shrine.
1850 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 5) I. 427 Modern writers often erroneously apply the word shrine to the chapel or church in which the real shrine is deposited.
3. A case or casket for a dead body; also, a tomb or cenotaph of an elaborate kind.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > case or casket for corpse
shrinec1385
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [noun] > monumental > large or elaborate
shrinec1385
mausoleum1688
mole1700
imambara1837
speos1843
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 672 Sche..made hire subtyl werkemen make a schryne Of alle the rubyis & the stonis fyne..that sche coude espie.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 660 They cast their dead into the Riuer, others reserued them at home in glasse shrines.
1613 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 3) Shrine, a remembrance for the dead.
1724 A. Pope Epitaph on Harcourt in Whitehall Evening Post 15–17 Oct. To this sad Shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near.
1824 W. Fowler List Subj. Engravings The Percy Shrine (Beverley).
1830 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Tales of my Landlord (new ed.) I. 224 This peculiar shrine of the Whig martyrs is very much honoured by their descendants.
4. transferred.† b. Used for: An enclosing membrane. Obsolete.
a. That which encloses, enshrines, or screens, or in which something dwells.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > that which encloses
closurec1386
shrinea1400
closerc1440
clausurea1464
sepiment1660
a1400 G. Chaucer To Rosemounde 1 Madame, ye ben of al beaute shryne As fer as cercled is the mapamonde.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. iv. sig. Q5v You liuing powres enclosed in stately shrine Of growing trees.
a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James III in Wks. (1711) 60 Favourites are Shrines to shadow Princes from their People.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 360 Of Light by farr the greater part he [sc. God] took, Transplanted from her [sc. moon's] cloudie Shrine, and plac'd In the Suns Orb. View more context for this quotation
1813 Ld. Byron Giaour (ed. 5) 6 Clime of the unforgotten brave!..Shrine of the mighty!
1874 A. O'Shaughnessy Music & Moonlight 127 The heart was a shrine For that memory to dwell in divine.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > bodily substance > membrane > [noun]
rimeOE
hameOE
skina1398
caul1398
shrine1398
tunicle1398
panniclea1400
pelliculea1400
slougha1400
membrane?a1425
pellicle?a1425
pellet?1440
enfolder1545
kell1545
involucre1578
skinlet1598
striffena1612
swathe1615
veil1639
tunic1661
swath-band1668
involucruma1676
wall1682
panniculus1702
theca1807
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) v. xxxvi Aboute þe herte is a manere cloþing þat hatte thee schryne and þe coofer of þe herte.
5.
a. A place where worship is offered or devotions are paid to a saint or deity; a temple, church.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > church or place of worship > [noun]
churcheOE
God's houseOE
kirkc1175
temple1399
steeple1555
church building1605
steeple-house1644
shrine1645
Dominical1659
religion shop1811
1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xix, in Poems 9 Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 32 This tusky Boar Young Mycon offers, Delia, to thy Shrine.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 78 Seva Gi was departed thence to Purtaabgur, to visit the Shrine of Bowany.
a1771 T. Gray Imit. Propertius in Wks. (1884) I. 151 Before the Goddess' shrine we too, love's vot'ries, bend.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. ii. iv. 163 The pilgrims [distinguished] by bearing some symbol of the god to whose shrine they are going.
1880 L. Oliphant Land of Gilead iii. 80 In the East it is a common thing for the same shrine to serve the purpose of many succeeding religions.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. i. 3 Behind this temple was the shrine of Vesta.
1905 C. E. Byles Life & Lett. R. S. Hawker v. 42 The position of the Church, like that of all ancient Shrines in England, was chosen and fixed on certain principles.
b. In the following quots. commonly explained as ‘an image (of a saint or god)’. The passages seem, however, to be merely somewhat strained figurative applications of sense 5. Cf. 2c.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > Christian symbols or images > [noun]
shrine1594
icon1833
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. C1v Offer pure incense to so pure a shrine . View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vii. 40 From the foure corners of the earth they come to kisse this shrine, this mortall breathing Saint. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 164 For Feature, laming The Shrine of Venus, or straight-pight Minerua. View more context for this quotation
c. figurative in contexts referring to the veneration or idolizing of some person or thing.
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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > [noun]
holinessc897
houseeOE
halidomc1000
ZionOE
God's houseOE
wike-tuna1250
saintuairea1300
sanctuarya1340
holy1382
entry?c1400
the Holy (Saint) Sepulchre (occasionally the Sepulchre)c1400
high placea1425
place of worship?1459
synagogue1490
God-box?1548
shrinea1577
bethela1617
prayer house1657
barn1689
bidental1692
altar1772
praying housea1843
a1577 G. Gascoigne Princelie Pleasures Kenelworth sig. B.iiij, in Whole Wks. (1587) It can not be that such a Saint to see Can long in shrine her seemely selfe so shroude.
1595 Blanchardine & Eglantine liv. 210 The neighboring Princes, which long had bent their deuotions to the sweet Saint which kept her shrine in Tormaday.
1607 B. Jonson Volpone i. i. sig. B Good morning to the Day; and, next, my Gold: Open the shrine, that I may see my Saint. View more context for this quotation
1690 W. Temple Ess. Poetry 1 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. The Two common Shrines, to which most Men offer up the Application of their Thoughts and their Lives, are Profit and Pleasure.
1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke ii, in Misc. Poems 365 Honour forbid! at whose unrival'd Shrine Ease, Pleasure, Virtue, All, our Sex resign.
1751 T. Gray Elegy xviii. 8 To..heap the Shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense, kindled at the Muse's flame.
1808 W. Wilson Hist. Dissenting Churches II. 57 He was too consciencious to sacrifice his principles at the shrine of worldly advantage or emolument.
1853 ‘Dow, Jr.’ in W. Jerdan Yankee Humour 88 Ye grey-haired worshippers at the shrine of Mammon!
1904 H. Paul Hist. Mod. Eng. I. Introd. 13 He [sc. Mill] kept the lamp burning in the Benthamite shrine.
Compounds
a. attributive and in other combinations.
ΚΠ
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 13 Hee throngs in shryne clowd [L. infert se sæptus nebula].
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 67 The slip Ascanius (for sainct thee shrinecase adoring) Shee cols for the father.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 240 If these [e.g. crowns] Be wanting, a less Shrine-robber will seize On a gilt Hercules his thigh.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. xi. 117 ‘Such was its virtue!’—twangs the Sacristan, Holding the shrine-box up.
1876 J. S. Brewer Eng. Stud. (1881) 107 The exquisite tracery of their screens and shrine-work.
b. With reference to the Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Cf. Shriner n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > secret society > [adjective] > organizations similar to masons
illuminized1920
shrine1968
1968 Chicago Tribune 7 July i. 1/1 More than 2,500 Shriners gathered..to kick off the 94th annual Shrine convention.
1974 Sunday Advocate-News (Barbados) 3 Mar. 11/4 [The] Prime Minister..received members of the Manito Shrine Club.
1976 Columbus (Montana) News 27 May 6/3 Tom participated in the clown unit of the Shrine Ceremonial parade.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
shrinev.
/ʃrʌɪn/, U.S. /ʃraɪn/ 1. † b. to shrine (a person) for a saint: to venerate or proclaim him as a saint. Also figurative.† c. To canonize (figurative). Obsolete.† d. To set up as a sacred offering. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To enclose (relics) in a shrine; to provide (a saint or deity) with a shrine or sanctuary. Now rare.
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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > shrine > [verb (transitive)] > provide with or enclose in a shrine
shrinec1290
ferterc1325
enshrine1586
temple1593
entemple1603
enchase1643
c1290 Beket 376 in S. Eng. Leg. 117 In þulke ȝere seint thomas schrinede seint edward At westmunstre.
c1290 Beket 376 in S. Eng. Leg. 175/2406 Seint thomas..onder eorþe he lay, Are þat he I-schrined were, wel mani a long day.
c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 627 I wolde I hadde thy coillons in myn hond In stide of Relikes... They shul be shryned in an hogges toord.
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 69 Þe fame þerof come vnto þe monasterie þer Saynt Austyn was shrynyd.
1526 R. Whitford tr. Martiloge 49 Theyr two bodyes were ioyned bothe togyder, & so shryned at rome by myracle.
1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. lxxxijv Saint Wyllyam of Norwyche, a martyr, whych was ther shryned in Christes church abbeye.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) iii. 93 To take up the body of Edith..and to shrine it.
1717 A. Pope Fable of Dryope in Wks. 279 Believe a Goddess shrin'd in ev'ry tree.
1803 R. Southey Queen Orraca 60 Our brother Pedro brings them here, In Coimbra to be shrined.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > canonization > perform canonization [verb (transitive)]
canonizec1380
sanctify1390
saint1487
to shrine (a person) for a saint1530
portess1570
rubricate1570
holy1578
calendar1597
beheaven1601
besainta1603
templify1615
beatify1629
beatificate1636
1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Cvij Shryninge them alwaye for sayntes which purchased them preuileges or fought for their libertyes.
1591 J. Lyly Endimion v. iii. sig. Kv You must nowe tell who Eumenides shrineth for his Saint.
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 27 Setting forth Lady Ignorance for a great Sainct..and shrining her unto them for the true mother of Devotion.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > exaltation or glorification > exalt or glorify [verb (transitive)]
heavec825
higheOE
brightenOE
clarifya1340
glorifya1340
enhancec1374
stellifyc1384
biga1400
exalt?a1400
raisea1400
shrinea1400
to bear up?a1425
enhighc1440
erect?a1475
assumec1503
amount1523
dignifya1530
to set up1535
extol1545
enthronize1547
augment1567
sublimate?1567
sublime1568
assumptc1571
begoda1576
royalize1589
suscitate1598
swell1601
consecrate1605
realize1611
reara1616
sphere1615
ingreata1620
superexalta1626
soara1627
ascend1628
rise1628
embroider1629
apotheose1632
grandize1640
engreaten1641
engrandizea1652
mount1651
intronificate1653
magnificent1656
superposit1661
grandify1665
heroify1677
apotheosize1695
enthrone1699
aggrandize1702
pantheonize1801
hoist1814
princify1847
queen1880
heroize1887
a1400 G. Chaucer Against Women Unconst. 15 Ye might be shryned, for your brotelnesse, Bet than Dalyda, Creseide, or Candace.
1878 W. C. Smith Hilda ii. 177 What, if heaven should be wroth at my shrining and sainting a man, Sinful and mortal as I?
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > sacrifice [verb (transitive)]
offereOE
teemc1275
sacrea1325
sacrify1390
sacrificea1400
presentc1425
exhibit1490
immolate1548
immole1610
shrine?1611
victim1671
victimize1853
oblate1872
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads x. (ad fin.) Poore Dolons spoiles Vlysses had; who shrin'd them on his sterne.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > bury or entomb [verb (transitive)]
bedelveOE
begraveOE
burya1000
beburyc1000
bifel-ec1000
layc1000
to fall, lull, lay (bring obs.) asleepOE
tombc1275
gravec1300
inter1303
rekec1330
to lap in leadc1340
to lay to rest, abed, to bed1340
lie1387
to louk in clay (lead, etc.)?a1400
to lay lowa1425
earthc1450
sepulture1490
to put awaya1500
tyrea1500
mould1530
to graith in the grave1535
ingrave1535
intumulate1535
sepult1544
intumil?c1550
yird1562
shrinea1566
infera1575
entomb1576
sepelite1577
shroud1577
funeral1578
to load with earth1578
delve1587
to lay up1591
sepulchrize1595
pit-hole1607
infuneral1610
mool1610
inhumate1612
inurna1616
inhume1616
pit1621
tumulate1623
sepulchrea1626
turf1628
underlay1639
urna1657
to lay to sleep, asleep1701
envaulta1745
plant1785
ensepulchre1820
sheugh1839
to put under1879
to lay away1885
a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Djv Shrine me in clay aliue, some good man stop mine eye.
1567–8 Gismond of Salerne v. iii. 40 (Cunliffe) And in one tombe our bodies bothe to shrine.
1570–1 in Coll. Black-letter Ballads & Broadsides (1867) 35 The Nortons' bones should be so shrynd That now hanges wauering in the wynd.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 703 His ashes..were carried to Rome, and shrined there in the monument of the Antonines.
3. † c. To enfold, embrace. Obsolete. rare.† d. reflexive. To conceal oneself. Obsolete. rare.† e. ? To cover with rich ornament. Obsolete. rare.† f. To bury (a sword) in a person's body.
a. To enclose, envelop, engird, as a shrine or sanctuary does the body or the image of a saint.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > in or as a shrine
shrine1577
enshrine1586
1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Fiv Ye Muses nine With grace deuine My wittes to shrine Giue not consent.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis Ded. sig. Aij Thee pyth, that is shrind vp wythin thee barck and bodye of so exquisit..a discourse.
1597 Bp. J. Hall Defiance to Enuy in Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. sig. A3v Nor earthen Pot wont secret death to shrine.
1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 36 So sweet the Temple was, that shrin'd The Sacred sweetnesse of his mind.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 672 Th' Almightie Father where he sits Shrin'd in his Sanctuarie of Heav'n secure. View more context for this quotation
1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 217 B—th in his cloudy tabernacle shrin'd.
1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 38 Thus loaded with a feast the tables stood, Each shrining in the midst the image of a God.
a1851 D. M. Moir Poet. Wks. (1852) II. 363 A patch of sky..shrining a star Magnificent.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 286 Tempe, shrined around in shadowy woods o'erhanging.
1871 D. G. Rossetti Portrait in Poems iii In painting her I shrined her face Mid mystic trees.
b. To enclose, shut up (an object) in a case; †hence, to treasure.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > revere [verb (transitive)]
honourc1275
shamec1384
to hold (also have) (a person or thing) in (great, etc.) reverencec1405
worshipc1450
to have, or hold in veneration?a1475
to worship the ground (a person) walks (also treads) onc1525
reverence1548
revere1558
reverent1565
shrine1592
saint1597
venerate1623
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > enclose in a receptacle or surrounding mass > in a receptacle
spear1303
to shut upc1400
shrine1592
occlude1623
stop1714
encase1727
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. N1v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) What auaileth it to shrine so much this vain beauty, which..is euery day in danger.
1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 115 A liveless peece of earth [viz. money] is his master, yea his God, which he shrines up in his chest.
1886 C. R. Conder Syrian Stone-lore (1896) iv. 166 The oldest [copy of the Pentateuch], shrined in its silver case and bound in green.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold [verb (transitive)] > embrace or clasp with the arms
amplect1522
amplex1542
clasp1549
compassa1593
shrine1605
arma1616
1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles iii. 17 Ist possible that I..Should shrine within mine armes so bright a goddesse?
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > conceal oneself [verb (reflexive)]
hidec897
wryOE
shroudc1402
imbosk1562
shrine1570
thick1574
mew1581
burrow1596
dern1604
earth1609
veil1614
ensconcea1616
abscond1626
perdue1694
secrete1764
to stow away1795
1570 T. Preston in Old Ballads (Percy Soc.) 71 Loth was I [a fly] to go out, And shrind my selfe under a brome.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > ornament [verb (transitive)] > adorn richly
pridec1225
emboss1578
shrine1582
invest1607
ouchea1729
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil Descr. Liparen in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 95 An armoure..With gould ritchlye shrined [Aen. viii. 436 arma..auroque polibant].
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or thrust with sword > strike with sword [verb (transitive)] > thrust (a sword)
pickc1487
stoke1513
sheathe1585
shrine1614
rit1808
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia vii. 276 If any should his kinsman finde, And in his breast his sword hath shrin'd.
4. To enshrine in one's heart or thoughts.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > fame after death > make famous after death [verb (transitive)] > preserve in memory
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1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 29v I haue shrined thee in my heart for a trustie friende.
1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 15v The idoll that was shrinde within his brest.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. D Loue..straight diued into my heart, And there did shrine the Idea of your selfe.
1607 B. Barnes Divils Charter iii. ii. F 1 He that aliue was shrined in my brest, Now dead liues yet intombed in my thoughts.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna i. xxiv. 13 When that majestic theme Shrined in her heart found utterance.
1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk i. iv. 88 The man of real genius..has the feeling of truth already shrined in his own breast.
1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. xi. 226 It was waste of time and life to keep her shrined in the dearest sanctuary of his being.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > be in [verb (intransitive)] > as in a shrine
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c1400 Langland's P. Pl. (Univ. Coll. MS.) A. i. 162 Chastite wiþouten charite wurþ schryned in helle.
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. F3v The soule that should be shrinde in heauen.
1602 W. S. True Chron. Hist. Ld. Cromwell sig. G2v My soule is shrinde with heauens celestiall couer.
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia ix. 387 Fild with grace diuine, That in his secret soule did shrine [L. tacita quem mente gerebat].
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