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n. - The physical remains of dead people.

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  • Boris Zbarsky was one of the embalmers originally entrusted with the task of preserving the reliquiae of V.
  • Si vero, Crateva, inter caeteras herbarum radices, avaritiae radicem secare posses amaram, ut nullae reliquiae essent, probe scito, &c.
  • • In caemeterio Sub auftrali hujus sedis parte Depofitse funt reliquiae:
  • Praesentia vero, mirum dictu nihil imminuit: vere major fuit Roma majoresque sunt reliquiae quam rebar.
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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