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APSE |
Church space |
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NAVE |
Central space in a church |
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SITTING |
A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person,
in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings. |
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PARADISE |
An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church,
as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc. |
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AREA |
Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of
the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building. |
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SPACIOUS |
Inclosing an extended space; having large or ample room;
not contracted or narrow; capacious; roomy; as, spacious bounds; a
spacious church; a spacious hall. |
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PARVISE |
A court of entrance to, or an inclosed space before, a
church; hence, a church porch; -- sometimes formerly used as place of
meeting, as for lawyers. |
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RETROCHOIR |
Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a
chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of
the back or eastern face of the altar. |
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TRIFORIUM |
The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the
roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the
interior of the churc... |
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SIGNIFICAVIT |
...till he submit
himself to the authority of the church. ... |
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TONSURE |
The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the
service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given
by a bishop, abbot... |