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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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Hans-Peter Feldmann's Die Toten (The Dead), 1998, was, perhaps in response to the media frenzy, given a central place in the exhibition--indeed it was presented like a sacred relic in its own white shrine at the start of the show--and unavoidably transformed into a monument of reconciliation. The first revolves around the struggle for a sacred relic and-the Reverend Taylor's psychiatrist can make of this what he will-a wicked vicar's lust for world domination; the second deals with the coming of a comet that may be the deeply unpleasant "Wormwood" prophesied in one of the Book of Revelation's gloomier passages. The sacred relic is mounted on a podium and covered by a glass cage, echoing the bell-jar like form of the chapel itself. |
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