Usually means: Sanctuary within a temple, sacred.
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  1. adytum: Merriam-Webster
  2. adytum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adytum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adytum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adytum: Wordnik
  6. adytum: Wiktionary
  7. adytum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. adytum: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Adytum, adytum: Dictionary.com
  10. Adytum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. adytum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Adytum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. adytum: FreeDictionary.org
  14. adytum: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. adytum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Adytum: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. adytum: Merriam-Webster

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Adytum: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

(Note: See adyta as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (adytum)

noun:  (Ancient Greece, religion) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in a temple, from where oracles were given.
noun:  (by extension) A private chamber; a sanctum.

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