单词 | pulpitum |
释义 | pulpitumn. 1. Church Architecture. A stone screen in a church separating the choir from the nave, frequently surmounted by a loft housing the organ. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > screen > [noun] purpitle1354 screen1587 pulpitum1640 sept1640 cancelli1642 altar screena1691 reredos1745 jube1767 catapetasma1798 rood screen1817 iconostas1833 iconostasis1833 haikal screen1902 choir-screen- 1640 W. Somner Antiq. Canterbury 166 Archbishop Becket..being here or hard by (at or upon the third or fourth..step of the Pulpitum or ascent to the Presbytery or quire..) murdered. 1726 J. Dart Hist. & Antiq. Cathedral Church Canterbury 17 The Altar of the Holy Cross..stood upon the Pulpitum or Ascent going into the Choir under the Angel Tower. 1801 J. Milner Hist. Winchester II. i. 24 The glade of Gothic pillars and arches, which supported the ancient pulpitum, that enclosed and overlooked the choir to the west. 1908 F. Bond Screens & Galleries Eng. Churches iv. 159 The pulpitum differed from the rood screen in many ways. It formed the eastern barrier of the quire. 1923 Trans. Scottish Ecclesiol. Soc. 7 101 As originally placed the painting took the shape of a boarded tympanum, occupying the entire space upward from the back of the pulpitum, or loft, to the roof. 1937 Burlington Mag. Mar. 128/2 The ‘Master of the Naumburg Sculptures’..was responsible..for the sculptures on the pulpitum in Mainz Cathedral. 1995 Times 22 Apr. (Weekend section) 2/2 The Majestas, an aluminium sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein,..has aroused controversy since it was placed in the cathedral on top of its reinforced concrete pulpitum in 1957. 2. Classical Theatre. A raised platform or stage; an elevated section of a stage. Also: the vertical surface forming the front of a stage. ΚΠ 1703 B. Kennett Antiq. Rome ii. iv. 43 Processium was the space of ground just before the Scene, where the Pulpitum stood, into which the Actors came from behind the scenes to perform. 1742 W. Clarke & W. Bowyer tr. J. Trapp Lect. Poetry 244 I shall pass over all the Apparatus of the ancient Drama,..the Form, for Instance, and Ornaments of the Theatre, the Scene, Proscenium, Pulpitum, Orchæstra. 1829 J. Taylor Mirabilia 239 On each side of the pulpitum stood an equestrian figure of a person of the Nonian family. 1908 E. Ross Black Buried Herculaneum i. v. 43 Every part of the building..was decorated with statues... They crowned the circle of the cavea; they filled the seven niches of the pulpitum. 1996 Times (Nexis) 12 Sept. The Spanish team has already unearthed several tiers of stone seating, the pulpitum or stage, several vomitoria or exits, marble capitals, lintels, and the spacious orchestra. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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