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pastophor, ‖ pastophorus Archæol.|ˈpæstəfɔː(r), pæˈstɒfərəs|
[a. F. pastophore, ad. L. pastophor-us, pl. -phorī, a. Gr. παστοϕόρος, f. παστός a shrine, + -ϕόρος carrying. More usually in L. form.]
One of the order of priests who carried shrines of the gods in procession, as frequently represented in Egyptian art.
1658Phillips, Pastophories, (Greek) the most honourable order of Priests among the Egyptians. 1706― (ed. Kersey), Pastophori, certain Priests, whose Business it was, at solemn Festivals, to carry the Shrine of the Deity. 1753–97[see below]. 1891tr. De La Saussaye's Hist. Sc. Relig. l. 437 Singers, pastophores, hierodules and others.
So ‖ pastoˈphorium [L., a. Gr. παστοϕόριον or παστοϕορεῖον], the apartment of the pastophori in the temples of the gods; applied to a similar division of the Temple at Jerusalem (LXX, Jer. xlii. 4). Hence, each of the two apartments, one on each side of the bema, in ancient churches, retained in the Greek Church.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Pastophoria, in antiquity, the apartments near the temples where the pastophori were lodged. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XIV. 6/1 The cells or apartments near the temples, where the pastophori lived, were called pastophoria. 1839J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Ch. xii. (1847) 133 It has an outbuilding which accords with the descriptions of the ancient pastophorium. |