Definition of "reliquaries" [reliquaries]

• Plural form of reliquary. (noun)

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• "- stunning vestments, vessels and reliquaries from the diocesan museum"
• "The cases then can be placed in larger items for display, which then are called reliquaries and also count as a third-class relic for hosting the first-class relic."
• "Although these specimens of antique jewelry set with emeralds may be numbered by the score or more in the museums and "reliquaries" of Europe, but very few engraved emeralds have descended to us from ancient times: This rarity is not due to the hardness of the stone, for the ancient lapidaries cut the difficult and still harder sapphire: therefore we must believe the statement of the early gem-writers that the emerald was exempted from the glyptic art by common consent on account of its beauty and costliness."