All 5 Uses

dais
in
A Wrinkle in Time
(Edited)

It was completely empty except for the pulse, which seemed a tangible thing, and a round dais exactly in the center.
p. 174.3

dais = raised platform
On the dais lay—what?
p. 174.4
As she continued to step slowly forward, at last she realized what the Thing on the dais was.
p. 174.8
She knew that her own puny little brain was no match for this great, bodiless, pulsing, writhing mass on the round dais.
p. 177.8
There was the brain, there was IT, lying pulsing and quivering on the dais, soft and exposed and nauseating.
p. 227.2 *

Definitions:

(1) (dais)
a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to people on it
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)