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Definition of Lichgates
1. lichgate [n] - See also: lichgate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lichgates
Literary usage of Lichgates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"... clergyman met the corpse, and read the introductory part of the service as he
preceded the train into the church. Several lichgates are still preserved. ..."
2. Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights which are Here Displayed by Alice Morse Earle (1902)
"On the eaves of gables, even of humble cottages, they were much used, and over
the lichgates of churches formed a most appropriate finial. ..."
3. Gentleman's Magazine Library edited by George Laurence Gomme, Frank Alexander Milne, Lady A C Bickley, Mrs Alice Bertha Merck Gomme (1891)
"lichgates are so denominated from the Anglo-Saxon word lie— dead body, because "
through them," says Todd, " the dead are carried to the grave. ..."
4. Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern: In Four Books by Johann Lorenz Mosheim, James Murdock (1852)
"An ecclesiastical council is a meeting of lichgates from a number of confederate
churches. (18) See, on this subject, JA Fabricius, ..."
5. Report and Transactions (1885)
"lichgates," where the bodies of the dead are rested at the entrance to a churchyard,
are familiar to all; ..."
6. The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Lambeth, and the Archiepiscopal by Thomas Allen (1827)
"lichgates, or sheds at the entrance, where the corpse rested till the minister
arrived. Church-houses, of whic-h the upper rooms were used for holding the ..."
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