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relicrel‧ic /ˈrelɪk/ ●○○ noun [countable]   relicOrigin: 1200-1300 Old French relique, from Latin reliquiae ‘things left behind’, from relinquere; ➔ RELINQUISH - Civil War relics
- the sacred relics of John the Baptist
- The town is a relic from California's gold rush.
- The treaty is now a Cold War relic.
- Voters passed a bill to remove a law that is a relic of the state's racist past.
- He received it as if it were a precious relic a saint had just blessed, and folded it carefully.
- It was true he had grown out of it now, but it was the beloved relic of his youth.
- Like so many villages in the Mani, Vátheia is a ghostly relic.
- Once viewed as a relic, continental drift and seafloor spreading evolved into the modern concept of plate tectonics.
- The relic reposes in a glass-fronted reliquary beneath a side altar of the same church in which it was first interred.
- The relic was found in exactly the place indicated.
- The latter's relics rest on the main altar.
a very old object, custom etc that still exists► relic an object, custom, idea etc that is left from long ago in the past and that most people think is very old-fashioned: · The treaty is now a Cold War relic.relic from: · The town is a relic from California's gold rush.relic of: · Voters passed a bill to remove a law that is a relic of the state's racist past. ► hangover especially British something that is left over from a time in the past: hangover from: · She knew that her feeling of awkwardness in social situations was a hangover from her schooldays· The company's debt is a hangover from its attempts to expand too rapidly. ADJECTIVE► holy· Originally this symbolic seat of power contained holy relics.· Gripping the key in his pocket as if it were a holy relic, he took his first step into the world.· To me there is no such thing as a holy relic or place. ► sacred· Much later, the perehera was adopted by the Buddhists to display their most sacred relic.· They were thus especially suitable to guard sacred relics and great sanctuaries. VERB► contain· Inside the fortress is an interesting old church containing Moorish relics.· In addition to their wild natural beauty, the moors contain interesting ancient relics and sites that are well worth investigating.· It contains some interesting relics, including the door of the condemned cell from the old Calton jail.· In the church a carved stone shrine was erected to contain the saint's relics.· It contained relics, and when melted down in the twelfth century yielded 500 marks of silver and thirty of gold.· The round tower looking uncommonly like a lighthouse or a telescope, contains relics of the hero of Trafalgar. 1an old object or custom that reminds people of the past or that has lived on from a past time:  Roman relics found in a fieldrelic of the books and photos, relics of Rob’s university days Everything in the house seemed old and untouched, like relics of an ancient time.2a part of the body or clothing of a holy person which is kept after their death because it is thought to be holy |