Meaning of relic in English

relic

noun [ C ]

/ˈrel.ɪk/ us

/ˈrel.ɪk/

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an object, tradition, or system from the past that continues to exist:

During the dig, the archaeological team found some relics from the Stone Age.

The country's employment system is a relic of the 1960s when jobs were scarce.

a part of the body or something that belonged to a holy person:

These bones are the relics of a 12th-century saint.

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relic

noun [ C ]

/ˈrel·ɪk/

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an object from the past, esp. one that has no modern use but is often valued for its meaning or importance in history:

The ship was a relic of the Spanish-American War.

A relic is also a part of the body or clothing of a saint (= holy person), or something that belonged to a saint.

(Definition of relic from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of relic

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All of this liturgical and musical restructuring occurred in conjunction with a translation of relics, an architectural building site and even a hagiographic ' building site'.

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All the miracles occurred after the translation of the relics.

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They could be relics of either kin-group ancestors or comrades fallen in battle.

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As earlier techniques for the reproduction of kinship came under colonial attacks, the position of relics and body fragments experienced considerable displacements.

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Interchangeable vehicles of gifts and sacred forces varied from charms, witch-substance, relics and shrines, or the body of the ritual specialist him/herself.

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Obviously the reserves offer the possibility of preserving vast landscape relics but it concerns perforce more or less local patterns.

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In dunite pods, relics of olivine are set in ser pentine with some cumulus and intercumulus chromite.

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As such, they are also relics of an earlier age, old supernaturals who were power ful even before the present age began.

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Only then did certain icons emerge as objectives in their own right ; previously the icon seems to have been ancillary to relics at a shrine.

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Such views are relics of seventeenth- and nineteenth-century monisms and idealisms.

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He concludes that 'far from being relics of a barbarous age', fairs were resilient and adaptable with important retail and social functions.

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Founders of convents and monasteries did the same and even led expeditions to steal relics from cemeteries or religious institutions.

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A strong, monochromatic material presence related this new landscape to the surrounding historic, utilitarian relics.

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There is not even a record of where her body was buried, much less any indication that her relics were revered.

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In these processions, parishioners were directed by clergy and headed by a cross, relics and/or a parish banner.

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cultural relics

The museum houses a collection of valuable cultural relics.

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historical relic

We shall become a backwater—an historical relic.

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holy relic

Oroe enters, opens the casket, and exclaims upon seeing it that it contains the holy relics of the dead king.

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