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Definition of Lecterns
1. lectern [n] - See also: lectern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lecterns
Literary usage of Lecterns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Parish Churches: Their Plan, Design, and Furniture by John Thomas Micklethwaite (1874)
"IN one or other of their uses lecterns belong to each of the three main divisions:
to the nave, when placed in the rood-loft, and also when used for holding ..."
2. A Book on Building, Civil and Ecclesiastical: With the Theory of Domes, and by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (1876)
"... to find rest for their feet when they rise from kneeling to standing, especially
in small pulpits. Another practical matter is that desks and lecterns ..."
3. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse by Montague Rhodes James, John Willis Clark (1899)
"Its major axis was clearly north and south, because we are told that six lecterns
at least stood on the west side. It is probable that it had an east side ..."
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