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relic 1. RC Church Eastern Church part of the body of a saint or something supposedly used by or associated with a saint, venerated as holy 2. Ecology a less common term for relict (sense 1) relic [′rel·ik] (geology) A landform that remains intact after decay or disintegration or that remains after the disappearance of the major portion of its substance. A vestige of a particle in a sedimentary rock, such as a trace of a fossil fragment. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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nbsp;based on the vessel for the Black Stone, a holy relic of Islam, as well as on several life-size fiberglass casts of donkeys, a pile of camel saddles, and a clutch of structures modeled partly in "PeaRoeFoam" (a repellent cocktail of dried peas, fish eggs, and foam beads, into which Rhoades sinks a variety of other objects). Serafin of Glendale looks over a display, above, containing part of his collection of holy relics in the Forest Lawn Museum. Like the Christian devotees who claim to use science to prove "the miracle" of the Shroud of Turin, Fetzer's colleagues use new scientific techniques to reexamine the holy relics of the Kennedy assassination. |
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