How to pronounce“relic”in English
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relic of the ship that isn't at the bottom of the sea it's a really important document for people going out looking today
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Definitions of “relic”
That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion.
“[…] let him not ask our pardon; The nature of his great offence is dead, And deeper than oblivion we do bury The incensing relics of it […]”
Something old and outdated, possibly kept for sentimental reasons.
“[…] 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.”
To cause (an object) to appear old or worn, to distress.
“Age has become a fetish in the world of guitars where large amounts of money are paid for a specially “reliced” guitar. As one company, Relic Guitars, which offers this service claims, “The idea behind relicing a guitar is to artificially replicate the natural wear that occurs over many years […]””
Pertaining to the Big Bang.
“A more realistic model must include the presence of perturbations whose extra energy can produce distortions of the relic radiation spectrum.”
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