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Definition of Feretory

Feretory
Feretory Fer`e*to*ry, n. [L. feretrum bier, Gr. ?, fr. ? to bear, akin to L. ferre, E. bear to support.] A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints. --Mollett.

Meaning of Feretory from wikipedia

- bands (either fillets or faces) sometimes seen around the architrave. Feretory An enclosure or chapel within which the fereter shrine, or tomb (as in...
- burial, as opposed to a similar shrine on which stands a reliquary or feretory into which the saint's remains have been transferred Burial vault – a stone...
- reliquary may be called a fereter, and a chapel in which it is housed a feretory or feretery. Relics may be the purported or actual physical remains of...
- the new Norman cathedral at Winchester in 1093. He was installed on a 'feretory platform' above and behind the high altar. The retrochoir was built in...
- many relics, saints' images, and treasures from the abbey. The golden feretory that housed the coffin of Edward the Confessor was melted down, and monks...
- September 1559, and was sacked in March 1560. By September 1563 the choir and feretory chapel were roofless, and it was said that the nave was also in a sorry...
- September 1559 and was sacked in March 1560. By September 1563 the choir and feretory chapel were roofless, and it was said that the nave was also in a sorry...
- Design" Silver: "Best Game." 2021 ENnie Awards: Gold: Mörk Borg Cult: Feretory for "Best Supplement." 2022 ENnie Awards: Gold: Mörk Borg Digital Monster...
- covered with a dome, a shrine and a feretory. Qutham ibn Abbas feretory was built during the reign of Amir Timur: feretory has 3 rectangles placed on top of...
- or attached to hanging drapery. For much of the time, the chest (or "feretory") was kept concealed by a wooden cover, which would be theatrically raised...