relic

suomi-englanti sanakirja

relic englannista suomeksi

  1. muistoesine, muisto

  2. jäännös, jäänne, reliikki

  1. Substantiivi

  2. jäännökset (monikko)

  3. muisto, muistoesine

  4. pyhäinjäännös, reliikki

  5. Verbi

relic englanniksi

  1. That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion.

  2. (syn)

  3. (RQ:Shakespeare All's Well) let him not ask our pardon;The nature of his great offence is dead,And deeper than oblivion we do buryThe incensing relics of it (..)

  4. (RQ:Browne Christian Morals)

  5. 1797, (w), ''The Italian'', London: T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies, Volume 2, Chapter 6, p. 184,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004837677.0001.002

  6. It appeared, from (..) the ruins scattered distantly along its skirts, to be a part of the city entirely abandoned by the modern inhabitants to the reliques of its former grandeur.
  7. {{quote-book|en|year=1850|author=Wilkie Collins|title=Antonina, or, The Fall of Rome|location=London|publisher=Richard Bentley|volume=I|chapter=1|pages=10–11|url=https://archive.org/details/antoninaorfallof01coll

  8. (RQ:Du Bois Souls of Black Folk)

  9. Something old and outdated, possibly kept for sentimental reasons.

  10. (RQ:Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre) the imperfect light entering by their narrow casements showed bedsteads of a hundred years old; chests in oak or walnut, looking, with their strange carvings of palm branches and cherubs’ heads, like types of the Hebrew ark; rows of venerable chairs, high-backed and narrow; stools still more antiquated, on whose cushioned tops were yet apparent traces of half-effaced embroideries, wrought by fingers that for two generations had been coffin-dust. All these relics gave to the third storey of Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine of memory.

  11. {{quote-journal|en|year=1991|journal=U.S. News & World Report|volume=116|issue=9-16|page=72

  12. A part of the body of a saint, or an ancient religious object, kept for veneration.

  13. (RQ:Webster Malfi)

  14. (RQ:Smollett Roderick Random)

  15. (RQ:Hume History) the duke, in order to support their drooping hopes, ordered a procession to be made with the reliques of St. Valori, and prayers to be said for more favourable weather.

  16. (RQ:Wharton Age of Innocence)

  17. To cause (an object) to appear old or worn, to distress.

  18. (quote-book)”|editors=Karin Bijsterveld; José van Dijck|chapter=Technostalgia: How old gear lives on in new music

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  20. (quote-web)

  21. (inflection of)