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ANTIMENSIVM

Volume 2 · 64 words · 1823 Edition

a kind of consecrated table-cloth, occasionally used in the Greek church, in places where there is no proper altar. F. Goar observes, that in regard the Greeks had but few consecrated churches, and that consecrated altars are not things easy to be removed, that church has, for many ages, made use of certain consecrated stuffs or linens, called antimensia, to serve the purposes thereof.