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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun apse has 1 sense
- apse(n = noun.artifact) apsis - a domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altar; Array is a part of church, church building
is a kind of niche, recess
has particulars: tribune
Derived form adjective apsidal1
CIDE DICTIONARY
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- A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy. [1913 Webster]
- A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept. [1913 Webster]" This word is also written
apsis andabsis ." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
apse, n.
1 a large semicircular or polygonal recess, arched or with a domed roof, esp. at the eastern end of a church.
2 = APSIS.
1 a large semicircular or polygonal recess, arched or with a domed roof, esp. at the eastern end of a church.
2 = APSIS.
Derivative
apsidal adj.
Etymology
L APSIS
THESAURUS
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Easter sepulcher, ambry, arcade, arcature, arch, arched roof, archway, baptistery, blindstory, camber, ceilinged roof, chancel, choir, cloisters, concameration, concha, confessional, confessionary, cove, crypt, cupola, diaconicon, diaconicum, dome, geodesic dome, igloo, keystone, nave, ogive, porch, presbytery, rood loft, rood stair, rood tower, sacrarium, sacristy, skewback, span, transept, triforium, vault, vaulting, vestry, voussoirROGET THESAURUS
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Temple
N temple, place of worship, house of God, house of prayer, temple, cathedral, minster, church, kirk, chapel, meetinghouse, bethel, tabernacle, conventicle, basilica, fane, holy place, chantry, oratory, synagogue, mosque, marabout, pantheon, pagoda, joss house, dogobah, tope, kiosk, kiack, masjid, parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe, Vatican, bishop's palace, Lambeth, altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy, sacrarium, communion table, holy table, Lord's table, table of the Lord, pyx, baptistery, font, piscina, stoup, aumbry, sedile, reredos, rood loft, rood screen, chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher, stall, pew, pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis, credence, baldachin, baldacchino, apse, belfry, chapter house, presbytery, anxious-bench, anxious-seat, diaconicum, jube, mourner's bench, mourner's seat, cloisters, churchyard, monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister, claustral, cloistered, monastic, monasterial, conventual, ne vile fano, there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.
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