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Chapter 7
The Jupiter

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Chapter 8
Plumstead Episcopi

Sanctum

Sanctum is the neuter form of Latin sanctus which mean holy.  It is also present in the phrase sanctum sanctorum (used in Chapter 12).  In both cases the English use refers to the Holy of Holies.  It comes to signify any sacred space in a church or cathedral.  Trollope uses the word to describe the dressing-rooms of the archdeacon and his wife.  There is a certain irony to his use of the word given its religious connotation.  It pokes a bit of fun at the archdeacon's resplendent household and his devotion to the institution of the church.  By using a term whose origin is the Holy of Holies, Trollope suggests divisions of sacred space and an emergence from a holy place into the light of the real world.  Yet this emergence is only from a humble dressing-room not a holy temple, although the archdeacon might stride about his home as though it were his temple.

OED

http://www.answers.com/main/ntq-s-sanctum  [TH]

Chapter 9
The Conference

Ipsissima verba

The phrase means "the very words."  It is used in conjunction with a quotation to indicate that the author's "very words" are being used.  In reference to the opinion of Sir Abraham, the archdeacon could not be certain he had seen the ipsissima verba of the document.  [TH]

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