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Definition of Diptych
1. Noun. A painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book).
Definition of Diptych
1. n. Anything consisting of two leaves.
Definition of Diptych
1. Noun. A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within. ¹
2. Noun. (arts) A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets, usually connected by hinges. ¹
3. Noun. A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church. ¹
4. Noun. A catalogue of saints. ¹
5. Noun. Artistically-wrought tablets distributed by consuls, etc. of the later Roman Empire to commemorate their tenure of office; hence transferred to a list of magistrates ¹
6. Noun. '''a.''' a literary work consisting of two contrasting parts (as a narrative telling the same story from two opposing points of view) "a ''diptych,'' a pastoral in which the author narrates the birth of Christ ... first as it has impressed the rich countryman Asveer, then as it has been seen by the skeptic Nicodemus" -- François Closset '''b.''' any work made up of two matching parts treating complementary or contrasting pictorial phases of one general topic "the first volume of a ''diptych'' Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert" -- F.E. Egler ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diptych
1. an ancient writing tablet [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diptych
Literary usage of Diptych
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ivories by Alfred Maskell (1905)
"Another example of most marvellous preservation is that of a diptych in the ...
It is interesting to compare this piece with another French diptych of the ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The oldest dated consular diptych is that of Probus (406); ... On the diptych of
Boetius at Brescia (487) and several others of the same type, the consul is ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1881)
"I said, with feigned unconcern,' The diptych ? Oh! that was my wife's last birthday
present; I hope you like it, for the fact is I want to persuade you to ..."
4. Early Christian Iconography and A School of Ivory Carvers in Provence by Earl Baldwin Smith (1918)
"The diptych of Rouen,1 which is today in the town library, has been in the
cathedral of that city at least since the twelfth century when it was used to ..."
5. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum by John Obadiah Westwood (1876)
"TWO Leaves of diptych. Roman. 6th century. Original in the Kunft Kammer, Berlin.
Each leaf, H. 13 in., W. 5 in. (Reprod. in Berl. Verz., iii. a. 96, 97. ..."
6. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1881)
"A diptych. BY THE AUTHOR OF 'CONSOLATIONS.' Thank luve that list you to his merci
call.—James I. of Scotland. * k ND who is this new artist with a speaking ..."
7. Monuments of the Early Church by Walter Lowrie (1906)
"It must suffice to give one example of the fifth century ivories, — a diptych at
Florence (Fig. 113) which belongs perhaps to the school of Milan. ..."
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