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Definition of Paten
1. n. A plate.
Definition of Paten
1. Noun. The plate used to hold the host during the Eucharist. ¹
2. Noun. (archaeology) Any shallow dish found in an archaeological site. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Paten
1. a plate [n -S]
Medical Definition of Paten
1. 1. A plate. 2. The place on which the consecrated bread is placed in the Eucharist, or on which the host is placed during the Mass. It is usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover. Alternative forms: patin, patine. Origin: LL. Patina, patena, fr. L. Patina, patena, a pan; cf. L. Patere to be open, E. Patent, and Gr. A kind of flat dish: cf. F. Patene. Cf. Patina. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paten
Literary usage of Paten
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old English Plate, Ecclesiastical, Decorative, and Domestic: Its Makers and by Wilfred Joseph Cripps (1894)
"The depression of the paten often fitted exactly into the top of its chalice ...
As we get later into the Gothic period the form of the paten becomes a ..."
2. Proceedings by Cambridge Antiquarian Society (Cambridge, England) (1899)
"It is this, that the paten is inscribed with the date 1569 and bears the mark of a
... The paten, which I exhibit this evening, belongs to Type D in the ..."
3. Divine Worship in England in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by John David Chambers (1877)
"The paten is not particularized in Holy Scripture, nor often in any of the ...
with a paten, fix Silver Chalices and patens, a gilt Chalice with paten, ..."
4. Official Catalogue by United States Centennial Commission (1876)
"Tricot and paten cloth. 235 248 Monllor ft Sons, Miguel, Alcoy, ... paten and
velvet cloth. 235 266 Sanz ft Sons, Widow of Felipe, Alcoy, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"10) mentions a paten of a sapphire colour, which doubtless was of glass ; and
the " sacro catino " at Genoa of green glass, which, through the middle ages ..."
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