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rel·ique

 (rĕl′ĭk)
n. Archaic
Variant of relic.
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relique

(rəˈliːk; ˈrɛlɪk)
n
an archaic spelling of relic
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Il a ajoute que parmi les conclusions auxquelles le dialogue doit aboutir figure "le changement du gouvernement actuel, considere comme relique de l'ancien systeme, l'eloignement de toutes les personnes impliquees dans la corruption electorale et la surveillance des elections sous toutes ses formes constitutionnelles et juridiques.
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Certainly John Donne has no expectation of remaining undisturbed: "When my grave is broke up againe / Some second gest to entertaine" (italics mine) are the opening lines of "The Relique." For Donne, finding the remains of two lovers occupying the grave the best that can be expected is that "he that digs" will "make a little stay." (17) The sort of rude intrusion expected by Donne and feared in Shakespeare's epitaph is one form of the boundary-breaking that underscores Shakespeare's ambivalent relationship between the temporal and subterranean worlds and to which the transi tomb gives visible expression.
Et, apres avoir evoque le caractere sacrificiel des cultes des anciennes deesses de la terre ou de la vegetation, nous pouvons entrevoir dans la cruaute devoratrice de la Mere Foret une relique d'un tel cult.