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Webster 1913 Edition

Antependium

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Anˊte-pen′di-um

,

Noun.

[LL., fr. L.

ante

+

pendere

to hang.]

(Eccl.)

The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.

Smollett.

Definition 2024

antependium

antependium

English

Noun

antependium ‎(plural antependiums or antependia)

(ecclesiastical) The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.

Translations

the hangings in front of the altar

Portuguese: antipêndio m

References

antependium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913