relic
noun
1 relic
An antiquity that has survived from the distant past.
Roget 40:
remainder,
residue;
remains,
remanent,
remnant,
rest,
relic;
leavings,
heeltap†,
odds and ends,
cheesepairings†,
candle ends,
orts†;
residuum;
dregs
etc.
(dirt)
653;
refuse
etc.
(useless)
645;
stubble,
result,
educt†;
fag-end;
ruins,
wreck,
skeleton. ,
stump;
alluvium.
surplus,
overplus†,
excess;
balance,
complement;
superplus†,
surplusage†;
superfluity
etc.
(redundancy)
641;
survival,
survivance†.
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Roget 551:
trace,
vestige,
relic,
remains;
scar,
cicatrix;
footstep,
footmark†,
footprint;
pug;
track mark,
wake,
trail,
scent,
piste†.
monument,
hatchment†,
slab,
tablet,
trophy,
achievement;
obelisk,
pillar,
column,
monolith;
memorial;
memento
etc.
(memory)
505;
testimonial,
medal;
commemoration
etc.
(celebration)
883.
record,
note,
minute;
register,
registry;
roll
etc.
(list)
86;
cartulary,
diptych,
Domesday book;
catalogue raisonne [Fr.];
entry,
memorandum,
indorsement†,
inscription,
copy,
duplicate,
docket;
notch
etc.
(mark)
550;
muniment†,
deed
etc.
(security)
771;
document;
deposition,
proces verbal [Fr.];
affidavit;
certificate
etc.
(evidence)
467.
notebook,
memorandum book,
memo book,
pocketbook,
commonplace book;
portfolio;
pigeonholes,
excerpta†,
adversaria [Lat.],
jottings,
dottings†.
gazette,
gazetteer;
newspaper,
daily,
magazine;
almanac,
almanack†;
calendar,
ephemeris,
diary,
log,
journal,
daybook,
ledger;
cashbook†,
petty cashbook†;
professional journal,
scientific literature,
the literature,
primary literature,
secondary literature,
article,
review article.
archive,
scroll,
state paper,
return,
blue book;
statistics
etc.
86;
compte rendu [Fr.];
Acts of,
Transactions of,
Proceedings of;
Hansard's Debates;
chronicle,
annals,
legend;
history,
biography
etc.
594;
Congressional Records.
registration;
registry;
enrollment,
inrollment†;
tabulation;
entry,
booking;
signature
etc.
(identification)
550;
recorder
etc.
553;
journalism.
[analog recording media]
recording,
tape recording,
videotape.
[digital recording media]
compact disk;
floppy disk,
diskette;
hard disk,
Winchester disk;
read-only memory,
ROM;
write once read mostly memory,
WORM.
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Polish: relikt
2 relic
Something of sentimental value.
synonyms: keepsake, souvenir, token.
Roget 505:
memory,
remembrance;
retention,
retentiveness;
tenacity;
veteris vestigia flammae [Lat.];
tablets of the memory;
readiness.
reminiscence,
recognition,
recollection,
rememoration†;
recurrence,
flashback;
retrospect,
retrospection.
afterthought,
post script,
PS.
suggestion
etc.
(information)
527;
prompting
etc.
v.;
hint,
reminder;
remembrancer†,
flapper;
memorial
etc.
(record)
551;
commemoration
etc.
(celebration)
883.
[written reminder]
note,
memo,
memorandum;
things to be remembered,
token of remembrance,
memento,
souvenir,
keepsake,
relic,
memorabilia.
art of memory,
artificial memory;
memoria technica [Lat.];
mnemonics,
mnemotechnics†;
phrenotypics†;
Mnemosyne.
prompt-book;
crib sheet,
cheat sheet.
retentive memory,
tenacious memory,
photographic memory,
green memory†,
trustworthy memory,
capacious memory,
faithful memory,
correct memory,
exact memory,
ready memory,
prompt memory,
accurate recollection;
perfect memory,
total recall.
celebrity,
fame,
renown,
reputation
etc.
(repute)
873.
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Dutch: aandenken, herinnering, memorabilia, relikwie, souvenir
Polish: pamiątka
Moby thesaurus: Agnus Dei, Holy Grail, Host, Methuselah, Pieta, Sanctus bell, Sangraal, account, ancient manuscript, annals, antediluvian, antique, antiquity, archaism, ark, artifact, asperger, asperges, aspergillum, back number, bambino, beadroll, beads, candle, catalog, cave painting, censer, chaplet, chronicle, ciborium, commemoration, conservative, correspondence, cross, crucifix, cruet, dad, documentation, dodo, elder, eolith, eucharistial, favor, fogy, fossil, fragment, fud, fuddy-duddy, granny, has-been, heirloom, history, holy cross, holy water, holy-water sprinkler, icon, incensory, inventory, keepsake, letters, list, longhair, matriarch, matzo, memento, memento mori, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, memories, menorah, mezuzah, mezzolith, microlith, mid-Victorian, mikvah, monstrance, mossback, neolith, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-timer, osculatory, ostensorium, paleolith, paschal candle, patriarch, pax, petrification, petrified forest, petrified wood, petroglyph, phylacteries, pipe roll, plateaulith, pop, pops, prayer shawl, prayer wheel, pyx, reactionary, record, recording, register, registry, regular old fogy, relics, reliquiae, remains, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, remnant, roll, rolls, rood, rosary, roster, rota, ruin, ruins, sacramental, sacred relics, sacring bell, scrap, scroll, shadow, shard, shofar, souvenir, square, starets, sukkah, survival, tabernacle, table, tallith, thurible, token, token of remembrance, trace, traditionalist, trophy, urceole, veronica, vestige, vigil light, votive candle ... show more.
relics
noun
Roget 362:
corpse,
corse†,
carcass,
cadaver,
bones,
skeleton,
dry bones;
defunct,
relics,
reliquiae [Lat.],
remains,
mortal remains,
dust,
ashes,
earth,
clay;
mummy;
carrion;
food for worms,
food for fishes;
tenement of clay this mortal coil.
shade,
ghost,
manes.
organic remains,
fossils.
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Roget 998:
rite;
ceremony,
ritual,
liturgy,
ceremonial;
ordinance,
observance,
function,
duty;
form,
formulary;
solemnity,
sacrament;
incantation
etc.
(spell)
993;
service,
psalmody
etc.
(worship)
990.
ministration;
preaching,
preachment;
predication,
sermon,
homily,
lecture,
discourse,
pastoral.
[Christian ritual for induction into the faith]
baptism,
christening,
chrism;
circumcision;
baptismal regeneration;
font.
confirmation;
imposition of hands,
laying on of hands;
ordination
etc.
(churchdom)
995;
excommunication.
[Jewish rituals]
Bar Mitzvah,
Bas Mitzvah [Fr.],
Bris.
Eucharist,
Lord's supper,
communion;
the sacrament,
the holy sacrament;
celebration,
high celebration;
missa cantata [Lat.];
asperges†;
offertory;
introit;
consecration;
consubstantiation,
transubstantiation;
real presence;
elements;
mass;
high mass,
low mass,
dry mass.
matrimony
etc.
903;
burial
etc.
363;
visitation of the sick.
seven sacraments,
impanation†,
subpanation†,
extreme unction,
viaticum,
invocation of saints,
canonization,
transfiguration,
auricular confession;
maceration,
flagellation,
sackcloth and ashes;
penance
etc.
(atonement)
952;
telling of beads,
processional;
thurification†,
incense,
holy water,
aspersion.
relics,
rosary,
beads,
reliquary,
host,
cross,
rood,
crucifix,
pax [Lat.],
pyx,
agnus Dei [Lat.],
censer,
thurible,
patera†;
eileton†,
Holy Grail;
prayer machine,
prayer wheel;
Sangraal†,
urceus†.
ritualism,
ceremonialism;
sabbatism†,
sabbatarianism†;
ritualist,
sabbatarian†.
holyday,
feast,
fast.
[Christian holy days]
Sabbath,
Pentecost;
Advent,
Christmas,
Epiphany;
Lent;
Passion week,
Holy week;
Easter,
Easter Sunday,
Whitsuntide;
agape,
Ascension Day,
Candlemas†,
Ash Wednesday,
Good Friday,
Holy Thursday;
Lammas,
Martinmas,
Michaelmas;
All SAint's DAy,
All Souls' Day.
[Moslem holy days]
Ramadan,
Ramazan;
Bairam
&c..
etc.
[Jewish holy days]
Passover;
Shabuoth;
Yom Kippur,
Day of Atonement;
Rosh Hashana,
New Year;
Hanukkah,
Chanukkah,
Feast of Lights;
Purim,
Feast of lots.
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