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GLOSSARY OF LITURGICAL

AND

ECCLESIASTICAL TERMS.

Preface

It has been his aim to bring together, in a comparatively small compass, as much information as possible concerning the meanings and applications of the many Liturgical Terms and other Ecclesiastical Words bearing on the study of Ritual, — a detail of Liturgiology to which much attention is now being directed. With this aim, the Author has consulted nearly two hundred MS. Church and Churchwardens' Accounts of the period of the Reformation, which tend to throw so much light both on the statute law and custom of our National Church in bygone times. Neither ordinary nor extraordinary sources of information have been overlooked ; both Latin and Eastern terms being included in the compilation. The illustrations are mainly taken from Omamenta and Instrumenta Ecclesiastica existing and used in the Church of England; while the explanations of pre-Reformation ceremonies, rites, and observances have been selected from English rather than from foreign examples and authorities.

It should be specially remarked that the book is not intended for the learned, but for the unlearned ; it is addressed ad populum. Moreover, let it be further noted that it is not an Encyclopaedia, but a Glossary. Throughout its preparation, the Author's aim has been to give as much accurate information as was possible in a few sentences and a short space. He has aimed at conciseness and brevity. Whether he has at all succeeded others must judge. In many cases, where one word bears several meanings, each explanatory meaning has been set forth, even though one may appear to contradict another. And nothing has been put forth without what was judged by the Author to be good and sufficient

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vii authority. In a very few cases the authorities for certain statements appear in the text ; but these are exceptions to the general rule. About six thousand explanations of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical terms are here provided. In order that those who wish to study the subject of Christian archaeology for themselves — a most agreeable, delightful, and profitable study — may do so with success, a considerable List of Authors has been prefixed, to all of which, having been constantly consulted, the Compiler is greatly indebted for the varied information contained in the following pages, — authors, whose books he earnestly recommends to inquiring students.

He is under obligations to the Rev. Dr. Littledale for permission to make use of certain semi-obsolete Oriental terms explained in the " Glossary " of that valuable compilation, The Offices of the Eastern Church (London : Williams & Norgate, 1863) ; to the late Very Rev. Eugene Popoff, Chaplain to the Russian Embassy, for his patience evinced, and information bestowed, in the explanation of details of Eastern Archaeology ; and also to Mr. James Parker, of Oxford, for the use of some illustrations which the Author made some years ago for the Gentleman's Magazine, and which were so cleverly engraved on wood by Mr. 0. Jewitt.

The late Bishop Wilberforce, at whose hands the Author received ordination, accepted the dedication, but circumstances prevented the publication of the book upon completion. Since the lamented death of that eminent ecclesiastical statesman, Bishop Harold Browne has been called upon to fill the episcopal chair of this ancient diocese. His Lordship having allowed me to inscribe the book to him, I take this opportunity of

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expressing my respectful acknowledgment for that and every other act of kindness received at his hands ; adding, at the same time, that neither the late Bishop Wilberforce nor his Lordship read the book or knew anything of its contents ; so that by consequence neither of them should be supposed to be responsible for the accuracy of any statement, fact, judgment, opinion, or conclusion contained in it.

F. G. L.

All Saints' Vicarage, Yobk Koad, Lambeth. Feast of the Transfiguration, 1876.

Hist af .illustrations*

Subject.

Agnus Dei

Alms-dish, 16th century

Altar, Old, Parish Church of Arundel, Sussex.

Altar under a Baldachino

' Altar, English, Vested, from a MS.

Altar Bread (Armenian, Coptic, Latin, and Greek). Four illustrations.

Altar-Bread box

Altar-Cross

Altar-Frontal (Precious)

Altar-Lantern

Altar-Taper

Altar-Tomb of Sir John Clerke, St. Mary's, Thame, Oxon

Amice. (Three illustrations)

Ampulla

Bell-cote

Biretta

Branch

(Burial) Ancient stone coffins

Candlestick

Cantoral Staff

Cappa Choralis

Catafalque

Chalice

Chasuble. — Fig. I. Most ancient form.

Fig. 2. Ancient English

form.

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Thomas of Canterbury.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Subject.

Chrismatory

Chrisom Child (Brass of Benedict Lee).

Ciborium of the 1 4th century

Columba suspended from the roof .

Columba on a basin or dish

Columba, the dove opened

Consecration Cross

Cope

Corona Lucis

Cross on a chancel-screen

Cross (Pectoral). Spanish example

Crozier

Cruets

Dalmatic

Diptych

Dove

Elevation of the Host

Flabellum of ivory

Frithstool, Beverley Minster

Funeral-pall of the 1 6th century . . .

Fylfot (Four examples of the)

Gospels (Ancient Book of the)

Gremiale of purple silk

Head-stone. (Three examples) . . .

Herse

Holy- Water Stoup

Illumination

Incense-boat (Old English)

Incised Slab from Thame Church .

Inscription from the Catacombs . . .

Knife (Eucharistic) ,

Labarum (Three examples of the) . . .

Lachrymatory

Lamp from the Roman Catacombs .

Lance

Lavabo-dish

Lectern

Leper-window

Lights

Maniple

Mantelletum

Mitre.— Fig. 1. Head-dress of a

Pagan Pontiff.

Fig. 2. Early Oriental Mitre

Fig. 3. Early Anglo - Saxon

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Subject.

Mitre. — Fig. 4. Thirteenth-century Mitre.

. Fig. 5. Mitre from a Brass,

Fig. 6. Mitre of William of |

Wykeham.

Monograms, Lollards' Tower, Lambeth.

Monstrance, Tower-shaped

German example

Morse of the 1 4th century

Morse (Copper-gilt)

Mortar

Nimbus

Notarial Mark

Osculatorium. (Two illustrations)

Ostensory

Pall (Funeral)

Pallium

Pane

Panel

Parvise

Paschal-candle

Paten

Pax. (Two illustrations)

Pectoral. (Two illustrations)

Pectoral Cross

Precentor's Staff

Processional Canopy

Processional Cross

Pyx

Quarry (Flowered)

Rebus in stained glass

Regnum or Tiara (Early form)

Reliquary Cross. — Fig. 1

Reliquary. — Fig. 2

Fig. 3

Ring (Episcopal). — Fig. 1

Fig. 2

Screen, Panel of, Handborough . . .

Scutum Fidei

Shrieval Seal

Shrine

Shriving Pew

Spire Cro?s

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Window (Warmington)

Window (New College)

Window (Thame)

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A glossary of liturgical and ecclesiastical terms

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A glossary of liturgical and ecclesiastical terms

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