{"id":24202,"date":"2019-02-23T20:46:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T02:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24202"},"modified":"2019-02-23T20:46:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T02:46:20","slug":"word-of-the-day-454","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/02\/23\/word-of-the-day-454\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Reliquarium<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>(Actually finding a definition seems impossible. Here&#8217;s the definition of <em>reliquary<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A container used to hold holy relics, usually of a saint. Generally only large churches, cathedrals, and monasteries would have such relics, and they would usually become popular pilgrimage destinations for people coming to pray to the saint in question. A reliquary could be practically any type of container, but were frequently ornately decorated chests of boxes, like the one on disply at\u00a0<a title=\"St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britainexpress.com\/attractions.htm?attraction=530\">St David&#8217;s Cathedral<\/a> in Wales. Many reliquaries were destroyed during the Reformation, and few that survived are on public display because they are so valuable. <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britainexpress.com\/church-history.htm?term=Reliquary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Illustrated Dictionary of British Churches<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in the beginning of Hugo award winning story <em><strong>The Dragon Masters<\/strong><\/em>, by Jack Vance (1962):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The apartments of Joaz Banbeck, carved deep from the heart of a limestone crag, consisted of five principal chambers, on five different levels. At the top were the reliquarium and a formal council chamber: the first a room of somber magnificence housing the various archives, trophies and mementos of the Banbecks; the second a long narrow hall, with dark wainscoting chest-high and a white plaster vault above, extending the entire width of the crag, so that balconies overlooked Banbeck Vale at one end and Kergan&#8217;s Way at the other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A fight for survival masks an inquiry into alternative modes of philosophical treatment of the Universe. I no longer read modern SF for want of time, but I had a lust to reread this classic, and finally found it in a collection of Hugo award winning stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reliquarium: (Actually finding a definition seems impossible. Here&#8217;s the definition of reliquary.) A container used to hold holy relics, usually of a saint. Generally only large churches, cathedrals, and monasteries would have such relics, and they would usually become popular pilgrimage destinations for people coming to pray to the saint \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/02\/23\/word-of-the-day-454\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24203,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24202\/revisions\/24203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}