Meaning of adyt | Babel Free

Definitions

The innermost sanctum of a temple, in which oracles are announced.

archaic, poetic

Examples

“[…] they afterwards broke a matter⟳ of twenty cubits, and attempted with their own⟳ hands to put⟳ the adyt and sacred places in a blaze.”

“Forever freed The bondage of the flesh, they tread, at last⟳, The inmost aisles of this elysian grove, To enter⟳ in the vasty House of Dreams, Unto the adyt of the mystic fane, Where, in a golden drapery of light⟳, Is Beauty shrined, supernal, chaste, […]”

“But he refused to abandon his question⟳ while there was yet a room, an adyt, a tower to be searched, or vault uncovered in shadowed depths. He called forth loudly again and again. But none responded to his words save⟳ the rats who scurried to seek⟳ out other places of hiding, vanishing into the shadows […]”

“The door was open⟳ and there were more outside. He didn't dare look⟳. His mind⟳ felt fogged, dulled by something, a drug. Cretus wasn't sure. Something reeled drunkenly in the adyt of his mind⟳, a vertigo. Had it been that simple? Had it worked?”

CEFR level