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Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians.
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One who keeps and shows church relics.
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A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.
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That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
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The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism.
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See Relic.
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One who makes it his business to seek after relics and carry them about for sale.
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Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone implements. The Paleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the "Stone Age;" the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings.
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A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.
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Among the primitive Christians, a case in which the relics of the dead were inclosed.
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Remains of the dead; organic remains; relics.
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Things left; remnants; relics.
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A relic of the Paleolithic era.
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Hence, a memorial; anything preserved in remembrance; as, relics of youthful days or friendships.
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In the manner of relics.
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Of or pertaining to a relic or relics; of the nature of a relic.
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A depositary, often a small box or casket, in which relics are kept.
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That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
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A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.
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