epistle side

epistle side

English

Noun

epistle side (plural epistle sides)

1. The right side of an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel.
   • 1848, anonymous, The Rite of the Consecration of a Bishop in the Catholic Church

     the Consecrating Bishop washes his hands, and goes up to the Altar; and the newly consecrated goes to the Epistle side of the same Altar, and having there a Missal placed for him, he accompanies the Consecrating Bishop through the remaining part of the Mass.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for epistle side under epistle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

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