relique
Noun

relique (plural reliques)

  1. Obsolete form of relic#English|relic.
    • 1632, John Milton, "On Shakespear. 1630":
      What needs my Shakespear for his honour'd Bones,
      The labour of an age in piled Stones,
      Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid
      Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid?



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