Associations to the word «Reliquary»

Wiktionary

RELIQUARY, noun. A container to hold or display religious relics.
RELIQUARY, noun. (figuratively) An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.

Dictionary definition

RELIQUARY, noun. A container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats