1) Eastern Christian liturgy
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[altar] The Prothesis is the place in the sanctuary in which the Liturgy of Preparation takes place in the Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches. The Prothesis is located behind the Iconostasis and consists of a small table, also known as the Table of Oblation, on which the bread and wine are prepared for the Divine Liturgy. It is mo...
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[linguistics] In linguistics, prothesis (from post-classical Latin based on Ancient Greek πρόθεσις próthesis `placing before`), or less commonly prosthesis (from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις prósthesis `addition`) is the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word without changing the word`s meaning or the rest ...
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• (n.) See Prosthesis. • (n.) A credence table; -- so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.
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(from the article `sacristy`) ...services are stored and in which the clergy and sometimes the altar boys and the choir members put on their robes. In the early Christian church, ...
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Proth'e·sis noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... a placing in public, from ... to set before; ... before + ... to set, put.]
1. (Eccl.) A credence table; -- so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.
2. (Medicine) See
Prosthesis .
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prothesis (s), protheses (pl) 1. The addition of a sound or sounds at the beginning of a word to make the word easier to pronounce. 2. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the preparations for the offering of Communion.
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the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala. · · Also calledproskomide.the preparation and preliminary oblation of the Eucharistic elements. · the table on which this is done. · the part of the sanctuary or bema where this table stands.
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