reconditory

English

Etymology

Latin reconditorium

Noun

reconditory (plural reconditories)

1. (obsolete) A repository; a storehouse
   • 1737, John Greaves, Miscellaneous Works:

     in which they put the dead body ; and being thus inclosed, they place it in a reconditory in the house , setting it upright against the wall

2. A reliquary

Translations

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• Italian: ^{(please verify)} reconditorio m

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “reconditory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)