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Lectern   /lˈɛktərn/   Listen
Lectern

noun
(Written also lecturn and lettern)
1.
Desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer.  Synonym: reading desk.






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"Lectern" Quotes from Famous Books



... held, the 18th July, 1870. The session was opened with all the usual solemnities. The Pope himself presided in person. The Mass of the Holy Ghost having been celebrated, the Sacred Scriptures were placed upon the lectern on the high altar, and, as was customary, the Veni Creator was sung. The Bishop of Fabriano then read the Constitution, or decree de Romano Pontifice, from the Ambo (pulpit), and the Fathers ...
— Pius IX. And His Time • The Rev. AEneas MacDonell

... to the covering hanging in front of the lectern, pulpit or Altar, and being the color of the Church Season. The Altar hanging ...
— The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia • William James Miller

... saw the whole school before him. The children sat by the little desks and raised their hands; the teacher sat in the lectern and looked displeased; and he himself stood before the map and should answer some question about Blekinge, but he hadn't a word to say. The schoolmaster's face grew darker and darker for every second that passed, and the boy thought the teacher was more particular that ...
— The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Selma Lagerlof

... 5 m. S. of Taunton (follow the Honiton road to the fourth milestone, then turn to the right). It has a very small church, perhaps originally Dec., but altered into Perp. It contains a good carved oak reading-desk and lectern. ...
— Somerset • G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade

... that house even for one night; lest my mistress should come to me though dead, and torment me. I went into the house while it was yet light, and looked about the chamber, and saw three great books there laid on the lectern, but durst not have taken them even had I been able to carry them; nor durst I even to look into them, for fear that some spell might get to work in them if they were opened; but I found a rye loaf whereof I had eaten somewhat in the morning, ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris

... bright. Tirlemont, again, has two old churches that will not delay you long, though Notre Dame de Lac has remarkably fine confessionals of the dawn of the seventeenth century, and though the splendid brass-work of the font and baptistery lectern at St. Germains would alone be worth a visit; but Leau, for which Tirlemont is the junction, is so quaint and curious a little town, and comes so much in the guise of a pleasant discovery—since Baedeker barely mentions it—that, even apart from its perfect wealth ...
— Beautiful Europe - Belgium • Joseph E. Morris



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