CELLA was also used for the lodge or habitation of a common prostitute, as being anciently under ground, hence also denominated formix. Intravit calidum veteri centone lupanar, Et cellam vacuam. Juv. Sat. vi. ver. 121. On which place an ancient scholiast remarks, that the names of the whores were written on the doors of their several cells; by which we learn the meaning of inscripta cella in Martial, lib. xi. Ep. 46. CELLA was also applied to the bedchambers of domestics and servants; probably as being low and narrow.—Cicero, inveighing against the luxury of Antony, says the beds in the very cellæ of his servants were spread with pompous purple coverlets. CELLA is also applied to the members or apartments of baths. Of these there were three principal, called frigidaria, tepidaria, and caldaria; to which may be added a fourth, called cella assa, and sometimes sudatoria. CELLA likewise signified the adyta, or innermost and most retired parts of temples, wherein the images of the gods to whom the edifices were consecrated were preserved. In this sense we meet with cella Jovis, cella Concordiæ. CELLA is also used for a lesser or subordinate sort of monastery dependent on a great one, by which it was erected, and continues still to be governed. The great abbeys in England had most of them cells in places distant from the mother abbey, to which they were accountable, and from which they received their superiors. The alien priories in England were cells to abbeys in Normandy, France, Italy, &c. The name cell was also given to rich and considerable monasteries not dependent on any other. CELL signifies also a little apartment or chamber, such as those wherein the ancient monks, solitaires, and hermits, lived in retirement. Some derive the word from the Hebrew chab, i. e. "a prison, or place where any thing is shut up." The same name is still retained in divers monasteries. The dormitory is frequently divided into so many cells or lodges. The Carthusians have each a separate house, which serves them as a cell. The hall wherein the Roman conclave is held, is divided, by partitions, into divers cells, for the several cardinals to lodge in.