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Definition of Patens
1. paten [n] - See also: paten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patens
Literary usage of Patens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"The patens must have been in use from the earliest time, when any formal ritual
... 3) these large patens were and were not used by the priest celebrating, ..."
2. Drugs and medicines of North America: A Publication Devoted to the by John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1885)
"Anemone patens Linn.—Torrey, in N icol le t's Report on the Upper ... Pu Isa t
ill a patens Mill.—Gray, Manual of Botany of Northern United States, ..."
3. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In which the Most by John Sims (1818)
"DE CANDOLI E has obsen'ed, that it is not improbable but that several distinct
species have been confounded under the name of patens. Our plant differs from ..."
4. Norfolk Archaeology, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to the Antiquities of (1895)
"OF the church plate in Norfolk, of pro-Reformation date, there are no specimens
of chalices remaining, but there are as many as thirty-three patens. ..."
5. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1847)
"... I consider myself very fortunate in having found roots of some species of
Achimenes." The roots mentioned were wholly those of A. patens ; from them ..."
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