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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

fanum

a place dedicated to some deity, a sanctuary, fr.

fari

to speak. See

A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church.

[Poet.]

Such to this British Isle, her Christian

fanes

Wordsworth.

Noun.

[See

A weathercock.

[Obs.]

Noun.

[L. fanum.] a temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church; used in poetry.

From men their cities, and from gods their fanes.