• IPA: /ʃɹaɪ̯n/

shrine (plural shrines)

1. A holy or sacred place dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure is venerated or worshipped.
2. A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.
3. (figuratively) A place or object hallowed from its history or associations.

   a shrine of art

• French: sanctuaire, lieu saint
• German: Heiligtum; (chiefly non-Christian also) Schrein; (Christian also, with specific meanings) Grabkirche; Heiligenkapelle; Bildstock; Wegekreuz
• Italian: reliquiario, santuario, edicola
• Portuguese: relicário, santuário, oratório
• Russian: ра́ка
• Spanish: santuario

• French: châsse
• German: Schrein
• Spanish: relicario

shrine (shrines, present participle shrining; past and past participle shrined)

1. To enshrine; to place reverently, as if in a shrine.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Shrined in his sanctuary.