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Posted By: wwh feretofy - 10/22/02 10:28 PM
The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

feretory


SYLLABICATION:
ferˇeˇtoˇry
PRONUNCIATION:
fr-tôr, -tr
NOUN:
Inflected forms: pl. ferˇeˇtoˇries
1. A receptacle to hold the relics of saints; a reliquary. 2. An area of a church
in which reliquaries are kept.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Anglo-Norman fertre, from Latin feretrum, from Greek
pheretron, from pherein, to carry. See bher-1 in Appendix I.

Now, that's more like it.

Posted By: Wordwind Re: feretofy - 10/22/02 10:51 PM
I suppose you could ferret out a feretory.

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