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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_89750" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_89750" /> == | ||
<p> (1): | <p> '''(1):''' (n.) An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (n.) [[A]] square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (n.) The main part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart. </p> <p> '''(4):''' (n.) [[A]] cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea. </p> <p> '''(5):''' (n.) [[A]] cavity, entrance, or passage; as, the atrium, or atrial cavity, in the body wall of the amphioxus; an atrium of the infundibula of the lungs, etc. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_21545" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_21545" /> == | ||
