Acidium (esidium)

[NL., These acidium - fruits, which arise from the same mycelium as the spermogonia, lie at first beneath the epidermis of the leaf. Sachs, Botany (trans.), p. 247. ædes (ēdēz), n.; pl. ædes. [L., a house, a temple: see edify.] 1. In Rom. antiq., any edifice, sacred or profane. Specifically, as distinguished from a temple ( templum ), a building set apart for the cult of a divinity, but not solemnly consecrated by the augurs. Thus, the "temple" of Vesta is properly an ædes, and was so termed in antiquity. 2. In Christian arch., a chapel. ædicula (e-dik'ū-lä), n.; pl. ædiculæ (-lē). [ML., dim. of L. ædes: see above.] In Rom. antiq.: (a) A very small house or chapel. (b) A shrine in the form of a small building; a rece in a wall for an altar or statue. Every division of the city had likewise its Lares comp i tales, now three in number, who had their own ædicula at the cro -roads. Encyc. Brit ., XIV. 313. IMG:content-0320.png:[blocks in formation] the bladder.