epistle side
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Traditionally, the Epistle is read from this side.
Noun
[edit]epistle side (plural epistle sides)
- (religion) The right side of an altar or church from the perspective of a person looking from the nave toward the chancel.
- 1848, anonymous author, The Rite of the Consecration of a Bishop in the Catholic Church:
- the Consecrating Bishop washes his hands, and goes up to the Altar; and the newly consecrated goes to the Epistle side of the same Altar, and having there a Missal placed for him, he accompanies the Consecrating Bishop through the remaining part of the Mass.
Coordinate terms
[edit]- gospel side (the left side, viewed from the nave)
References
[edit]- “epistle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.