(n.) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.
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Sanctum
Definition:
(n.) A sacred place; hence, a place of retreat; a room reserved for personal use; as, an editor's sanctum.
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(1) The antibacterial spectrum of E. alba was in between that of T. chebula and O. sanctum.
(2) Wallace Broecker's office looks at first glance what you might expect from the inner sanctum of one of the world's leading geoscientists and oceanographers.
(3) The dressing room door is the ultimate inner sanctum.
(4) The leaf extracts of Ocimum sanctum, Lawsonia inermis and Calotropis gigantea and leaf and flower extracts of Azadirachta indica were, however, found to inhibit both mMDH and mME.
(5) "You don't have to be in the inner sanctum of everything to be able to exercise influence in leadership," he says.
(6) Its concentric passageway symbolises the guided, ritualised walk of the common man towards the sacred inner sanctum of the democratic parliament hall.
(7) Where her predecessors were accused of appointing women as “window dressing” but keeping them out of the room where big decisions are taken, May seems to be doing the reverse: building an inner sanctum in her own image while filling the shop window with figures reassuring to those diehard backbench Eurosceptics who could otherwise make her life as impossible as John Major’s.
(8) The activity against Salmonella organisms was shown only by T. chebula; against Shigella organisms by T. chebula and E. alha; but not by O. sanctum.
(9) Grierson was handpicked by James Cameron to use the Canadian film-maker's 3D Fusion Camera System on Sanctum.
(10) A methanol extract and an aqueous suspension of Ocimum sanctum leaves were investigated for their immunoregulatory profile to antigenic challenge of Salmonella typhosa and sheep erythrocytes by quantifying agglutinating antibodies employing the Widal agglutination and sheep erythrocyte agglutination tests and E-rosette formation in albino rats.
(11) I remember as a boy being allowed into the inner sanctum of the light room and sitting inside the space between the lenses, looking out at the world through the bevelled glass.
(12) Gaby Hinsliff : She has built an inner sanctum in her own image – but has given top jobs to only seven women The one thing nobody expected from Theresa May was a cabinet stuffed with middle-aged men.
(13) Effects of restraint stress (RS) and its modulation by O. sanctum (Os), eugenol and T. malabarica (Tm) were evaluated on some biochemical and biophysical parameters in rats.
(14) Defections from the regime's forces to the Free Syria Army have been constant for the past few months, but Damascus maintains control of many key divisions and is not known to have lost any members of its most elite units or inner sanctum.
(15) The chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander – along with David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg – is a member of the quad, the inner sanctum on which the coalition is built.
(16) An ethanol extract of the leaves of Ocimum sanctum was screened for its effects on the central nervous system.
(17) Wonderingly, you wander upstairs and into the sanctum of his bedchamber.
(18) So near yet so far: inside the inner sanctum, but outside the inner circle.
(19) Persistent bombing by Syrian military jets and artillery has been unable to dislodge armed opposition groups who have been poised on the edge of the capital's inner sanctum, but unable to advance.
(20) He said it was around 10 October, but most of what remained of the inner sanctum was forming a protective guard weeks earlier than that.