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Definition of Diptychs
1. diptych [n] - See also: diptych
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diptychs
Literary usage of Diptychs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The consuls, on the day of the installation, were wont to offer diptychs to their
... The consular diptychs are recognizable by their inscriptions or by the ..."
2. Ivories by Alfred Maskell (1905)
"It has been shown that in their origin it was the fashion to present the consular
diptychs, and the other diptychs in the form of writing tablets, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"diptychs were used in the time of the Roman empire for sending letters—" mainly
... The consuls and quaestors used, on assuming office, to send diptychs ..."
4. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham by Joseph Bingham (1855)
"To deny them Christian burial, or not to receive their oblations, or to erase
their names out of the diptychs, was the same thing as to declare them ..."
5. Notitia Eucharistica: A Commentary, Explanatory, Doctrinal, and Historical by William Edward Scudamore (1876)
"279, where the diptychs (of six lists, three of the living and three of the dead,
... 3 A short but sufficient account of the diptychs is given by Bona ..."
6. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and by Joseph Bingham (1834)
"And Evagrius observes,9 of The- odorus, bishop of Mopsuestia, that his name was
struck out of the holy books, that is, the diptychs, upon the account of his ..."
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