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Offices of the Holy Eastern Church

tr. Littledale, 1863

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᾿4ββάδιον. An obscure monk.

ἀββαδίσκιον. An obscure monk.

ἀββαδοπρεσβύτερος. A monk in priests’ orders.

ἀββᾶς. 1. A father. 2. Any monk. 3. An abbat.

ἀββατεία. 1. An abbey or monastery. 2. Abbatial rank.

ἄβιος. A monk.

ἀγαϑόν. The Holy Eucharist. (S. Basil. Mag.)

ἀγάπη. 1. The love-feast of the Early Church. 2. The kiss of peace. (Lat. pax.) 3. An extra allowance at table in convents on festivals. (Lat. caritas, pitancia.) 4. Alms. 5. A term of respect.

ἀγαπητός. A cleric living with a subintroducta.

ἀγγελικός. 1. Angelic. 2. Monastic. 3. Epithet of angel-worshippers.

ἀγγελίτης. A Tritheist.

*ἀγγελοχαιρετισμός. The Ave Maria.

αγια, τὰ. 1. The Eucharistic species. 2. The sanctuary.

ἁγίασμα. 1. Any hallowed thing. 2. The Temple of Jerusalem. 3. The sanctuary of a Church. 4. A Sacrament. 5. The Eucharistic species. 6. The blessed bread or ἀντίδωρον. 7. Holy water.

ἁγιασμάτερον. A holy-water vessel.

ἁγιασμός. 1. The act of benediction. 2. The Tersanctus. 3. Holy water.

*ἀγιαστήρα. A font or baptistery.

ἁγιαστήριον. A font or baptistery.

ἁγιόγραφα, τά. 1. The Holy Scriptures. 2. A copy of the Bible or any of its parts.

ἁγιοζούμη. The dietary of a convent.

*Ἐαγιοκέριον. An altar-candle.

ἁγιόκλαδον. A blessed palm-branch.

ἁγιοπολίτης. 1. A native of Jerusalem. 2. esp. S. Andrew of Crete.

ἁγιορείτης. 1. A monk from a Mountain Convent. *2. esp. Mount Athos.

ἅγιος. 1. Holy. 2. A Saint. 3. Title of respect applied to Priests, Monks, and Emperors.

ἐν ἁγιοσίδηρον. An iron instrument used instead of a churchbell.

ἁγιοταφίτης. A monk from the Holy Sepulchre.

ἀγνωπταί. Heretics who denied CHRIST’S foreknowledge.

ἀγρυπνεῖν. To keep vigil.

ἀγρυπνία. A vigil.

ἀδέλφατον. 1. A brotherhood. 2. A convent. 3. A prebend.

ἀδελφή. A nun,

ἀδελφικόν. 1. A confraternity. 2. A convent.

ἀδελφός. A monk.

ἀδελφοσύνη. 1. A monastic brotherhood. 2. Spiritual brotherhood by adoption &c.

ἀδελφότης. 1. A brotherhood. 2. A lay confraternity in relation with a monastery. 3. The body of the faithful. 4. Title of respect used by Sovrans towards one another.

ἄδυτον. The Sanctuary of a church.

ἀδωδέκατα, τά. †The four festivals of the Circumcision, Nativity of S. John Baptist, SS. Peter and Paul, and the Decollation of S. John Baptist, ranking after the twelve great feasts which are next in honour to Easter.

ἀείπαις. A virgin.

ἀειπάρϑενος. Ever-virgin. Epithet of B. V. M.

ἀετός. A spot on the floor of the Bema where the figure of an eagle was delineated surrounded with rays, and hovering over a city, below which three rivers were depicted.

ἀζυμίτης. One who offers unleavened bread in the Holy Eucharist.

ἀζυμος. Unleavened bread.

ἀζυμοφαγία. The use of unleavened bread.

ἀήρ. The external veil which covers both chalice and paten.

ἀϑεμιτογαμία fa. Incestuous marriage.

ἀϑλεῖν. To suffer martyrdom.

ἄθλησις. Martyrdom.

ἀϑλήτης. A martyr.

αἰδεσιμότης. Reverence, a title of Ecclesiastics.

αἰϑερόδρομος. One who passes through the air; an Epithet of the Apostle S. Paul.

†αἴϑριον. The court in front of a church.

αἶνοι. The three last psalms. (Lat. Laudes.)

αἰών. 1. Secular life. 2. The Jewish or Christian dispensation.

αἰῶν. An Æon, in Gnostic ΗΝ

ἀκαϑίστος (κανών). A canon sung without pauses at matins on the Saturday of the fifth week in Lent.

ἀκακία. A purple bag, filled with dust, and carried by the Emperor at his coronation, in token of humility.

ἀκανόνιστος. Uncanonical.

ἀκέφαλοι. Sectaries who withdrew from episcopal rule after the Council of Chalcedon.

ἀκηδία. 1. Spiritual coldness. 2. Sloth.

ἀκκαοφόροι [aqua?]. Heretics who offered water instead of wine at the Holy Eucharist.

ἀκοίμητον. The perpetual light before the Blessed Sacrament,

ἀκοιμητοί. Monks in whose convents perpetual intercession is kept up by relays.

ἀκολουϑία. An office or form of prayer.

ἀκόλουϑος. An acolyth, a minor ecclesiastical officer.

ἀκοινωνησία. Excommunication.

ἀκοινώνητος. Excommunicated.

ἀκρόασις. The second grade of penitents, admitted into the narthex to hear the lessons and sermons.

ἀκροστίχιον. The antiphon of a Psalm (?). Apost. Const. II. 57. V.

ἀκρόστιχος. The mnemonic line prefixed to a Greek Canon, and acrostichally repeated through the Odes.

ἀκροτελεύτιον. The doxology at the end of Psalms and Hymns.

ἀκροώμενοι. Penitents admitted to the ἀκρόασις. (Lat. audientes.)

†ἀκτιστοσυμπλαστουργοσύνθρονος. Epithet of the Holy Spirit, Uncreate, Co-Creator, Co-throned.

ἀλαβαστροφόροι. The Holy Women at the Sepulchre.

ἀλειτουργησία. Suspension from clerical functions.

†ἀλϑένω. To heal. (ἀλϑαίνω &c. are in the Lexx.)

ἀλλαγαί, ἀλλάγματα. Vestments put on during the course of Divine Service.

ἀλλαξιώματα. See ἀλλαγαί.

ἀλληλουϊάριον. 1. The aggregate of the Psalms which contain the Alleluia. (Lat. alleluiaticum.) 2. A versicle with Alleluia, repeated after the Epistle.

ἄλογον. 1. Any irrational animal. 2. esp. a horse.

ἄλογοι. Heretics who denied the Existence of the Word.

ἀλτάριον. An altar.

ἄμβονας, ἄμβων, *ἄμβωνας. An ambon, desk, or pulpit.

ἀμβωνίζεσϑαι. To go up to the ambon.

*ἀμετάλαβος. A non-communicant.

ἀμμά, ἀμμὰς (also ἀμμᾶς). 1. A mother. 2. An abbess. 3. An aged nun.

ἄμνος. A Lamb, or altar-bread.

ἀμφίασμα. An altar-cloth.

ἀμφέϑυρον. The curtain of the holy doors.

ἄμφιον (usu. in pl.). 1. An altar-cloth. 2. A baptismal robe.

ἄμωμος. Psalm CXIX. (CXVIII. LXX.)

ἀναβάϑρα. A platform erected in churches on special occasions.

ἀναβαπτίζειν. To rebaptize.

ἀναβόλαιον. The amice or humeral of a bishop. (Lat. anaboladium, anabolagium.)

ἀναβολαῖον. An episcopal vestment.

*ἀναβόλιον. A shroud.

ἀναβόλιον, ἀνάβολος. A chrisom-robe.

ἀναγνώσεις. The book of Lessons. (Lat. Liber Lectionarius.)

ἀναγνώστης. A Reader, one of the minor orders of the Church.

ἀναδεικνύειν. 1. To effect a change. 2. To hallow.

ἀνάδειξις. 1. The completion of a change. 2. esp. the full consecration of the Eucharistic elements.

*ἀναδεξίμαιος, -μιος, -μος. A godchild.

*ἀναδεξιμεῖον. A godchild.

ἀναδέχεσθαι. To act as sponsor.

ἀναδόχισσα. A godmother.

ἀνάδοχος. A godfather: 1. at baptism; 2. at the monastic profession.

ἀνάϑεμα. The ban of the Church.

ἀναϑεματίζειν. To curse solemnly.

†ἀνακαμπτήρια. The cellulæ, or small houses for strangers, within the precincts of a church.

ἀνακομιδή. The translation of reliques &c.

ἀνάλαβος. The monastic girdle, the scapular.

ἀναλήψιμος. Belonging to the Ascension.

ἀνάληψις. The Ascension.

ἀναλογεῖον. A pulpit or lectern.

ἀναλόγιον. A pulpit or lectern.

ἀνάμα. Wine for the Holy Eucharist.

ἀνάμνησις. A festival on which a miracle is commemorated.

ἀνάνευσις. The act of rising after a genuflection.

ἀναπαύσιμος. Belonging to the office for the dead.

ἀνάπλασις. Regeneration.

ἀνάργυρος. Unmercenary, an epithet of Saints who tended the sick gratuitously, esp. SS. Cosmas and Damian.

ἀναῤῥεῖν. To say or sing an office.

ἀνάῤῥησις. Proclamation. The form beginning Ἡ Θεία χάρις, pronounced by the Bishop at an ordination.

ἀναστάσιμος. 1. Belonging to the Resurrection. 2. Dominical, or belonging to Sunday.

ἀναστοιχείωσις. Regeneration.

ἀνατολικός. 1. Belonging to the Resurrection. 2. Belonging to the office of Prime. 3. Belonging to the Eastern Church.

ἀναφέρειν. 1. To celebrate the Liturgy. 2. To commemorate a name in the Liturgy.

ἀναφορά. 1. An oblation. 2. The Canon of the Mass. 3. The Host. 4. The recitation of the names in the Diptychs.

ἀναχειροτόνησις. Re-ordination.

ἀνεκκλησίαστος. Expelled from the church.

ἀνενέργητος. A suspended cleric.

ἀνετῶς. Slowly (a ritual term).

ἀνηχούμενα. The higher porch of a church.

ἀνϑολόγιον. An office-book containing the festival services, extracted from the other books.

ἀνϑρωπολάτραι. Man - worshippers; epithet of the Nestorians.

ἀνϑρωπομορφιανοί, -ἴται. Heretics who attributed a corporeal form to the Deity.

ἀνθρωποπάρεσκος. One who courts human favour.

*ἀνιέρωσις. Desecration.

ἀννόνα, ἀννώνα. Salary, stipend. (Lat. ennona.)

ἀνοίξια, ἄνοιξις. The solemn opening of a church at its consecration or expiation.

ἄνοδος. The Ascension.

ἀνόμοιοι. Heretics who taught that the Son was of unlike substance with the Father.

ἀντάρτης. A rebel.

ἀντιδικομαριανῖται. Heretics who denied the perpetual virginity of S. Mary.”

ἀντίδωρον. The blessed bread, or eulogise, distributed to non-communicants at the close of the Liturgy.

ἀντίϑεος. Satan.

ἀντίλαμπρα, τά. Low Sunday.

ἀντιμίνσιον. A consecrated corporal, used for celebrations where there is no consecrated altar.

ἀντιμίνσιος. 1. The official (also called ὁ ἄρχων τῶν ἀντιμινσίων) who arranged the communicants in order for the reception. 2. A communicant in his rank.

ἀντιπάνον. A border or ornament worn on the edge of vestments; the apparel of the West.

ἀντίπασχα. The week after Low Sunday.

ἀντίτυπα. Antitypes. Name given to the oblations in the Liturgy of S. Basil.

ἀντίφωνον. 1. The alternate chant of the two sides of a choir. 2. An antiphon, or versicle employed as a key-note to a psalm. 3. An anthem in the Liturgy.

ἀνωκαμηλαύκιον. The outer part of the double cap worn by monks.

ἄξιος. Worthy. The formula of assent to the election of a bishop, or to the promotion from any lower ecclesiastical grade to a higher,

ἀξιώματα. §The insignia of a Bishop.

ἀπαμφιάζειν. To strip the altar.

ἀπαρχαί. 1. First-fruits. 2, The nuptial crowns.

ἀπευλογίας. An offender put to penance by exclusion from benediction.

ἁπλοῦς. A simple monk.,:

ἄπλωμα. An altar-cloth, also called ἐνδυτή or τραπεζοφόρον.

ἀπόδειπνον. Compline. Distinguished into μεκρόν and γα.

ἀποδίδοσθαι. To expire (as a festal season).

ἀπόδοσις. 1. The expiry of a festival, often its octave. 2. The feast of the Presentation B. V. M.

ἀπόδυτον. The place where the catechumens laid aside their dress previous to baptism.

ἀποκοινωνεῖν. To excommunicate.

ἀποκουκουλίζειν. To remove the chrisom-veil.

ἀπόκρεως. 1. Any season of abstinence from meat. 2. esp. the season beginning with Septuagesima Sunday. (Lat. carniprivium.)

†ἀποκρισιάριος. The proctor of a See or a monastery having the charge of conducting its business in ecclesiastical causes at CP.

ἀπολούσια. The office for washing off the baptismal chrism, eight days after baptism.

ἀπόλυσις. 1. The Dismissal, or close of an office. 2. The octave of a festival.

ἀπολυτικαὶ ἐπιστολαί. Letters dimissory. (Lat. pacificæ, formatæ.)

ἀπολυτίκιον. The prayer preceding the close of an office.

ἀπομαφορίζειν. To take off a wimple or veil.

ἀπομύρωμα. The ablution of the chalice. ἀπονηστίζεσθαι,

ἀπονηστεύειν. To terminate or break a fast.

ἀπόπαπας. An ex-priest.

ἀπόσπερνα. After Vespers.

ἀποστιχίς, ἀπόστιχον. +See στιχηρὰ ἀπὸ στίχου.

ἀποστολεῖον. A church dedicated to an Apostle.

ἀποστολίκιον. An episcopal vestment.

ἀποστολοευαγγέλιον. The book of Epistles and Gospels for the year.

ἀπόστολος. 1. An apostle. 2. A bishop of the Apostolic era. 3. The book of S. Paul’s Epistles.

ἀποσχηματίζειν. To unfrock a monk.

ἀποσχιστής. 1. Any schismatic. 2. esp. those who rejected the Council of Chalcedon.

ἀποταγή. Renunciation of the world.

ἀποτακτικός. One who has renounced the world.

†ἀποταξάμενος. One who has renounced the world, a monk.

ἀποτάττεσϑαι. To renounce.

†ἀπότιστος. Unwatered, dry.

ἀποτύρωσις. Quinquagesima Sunday, the last day on which cheese may be eaten before Easter.

ἀποφάνεια. 1. Any appearance of Christ. 2. esp. the Epiphany.

ἀργία. 1. Suspension from share in divine Service; Excommunication. †2. A holy day of obligation.

ἄρϑηξ. See ναρϑηξ.

ἀριστήριον. A refectory.

ἀριστητάριος. The refectioner of a convent.

ἀριστοκλήτωρ. 1. An entertainer or host. 2. esp. S. Simon Zelotes.

ἀρνισόχριστος. An apostate.

ἀρραβῶν. 1. Any earnest-money. 2. The sponsal gift.

ἀρραβωνίζεσϑαι. Το betroth,

†ἀρρεύστως. Underived; immediately from.

ἀρτζηβούριον. An Armenian fast, beginning the week before Septuagesima.

ἀρτοκλασία. The breaking of the antidoron, at the close of the Liturgy.

ἀρτοτυρίτης. One who offers bread and cheese at the Holy Eucharist.

ἀρτοφόριον. A pyx. (Lat. panarium.)

ἀρχάριος. A novice.

ἀρχιδιάκονος. An archdeacon.

ἀρχιεβδομάριος. The chief of the clerics in turn of duty during any given week.

ἀρχιεπίσκοπος. 1. Any archbishop. 2. esp. the Patriarchs of Constantinople and Jerusalem.

ἀρχιερεύς. A bishop.

ἀρχιερωσύνη. Title of respect given to Patriarchs.

ἀρχιμανδρίτης. 1. The abbat of a monastery of the first class. 2. Abbatial rank.

ἀρχιμανδρίτισσα. An abbess.

ἀρχιμονάζων. An abbat.

ἀρχιστράτηγος. Epithet of S. Michael the Archangel.

ἀρχισύμβολον. The Eucharistic species.

ἀρωματοφόροι. The Holy Women at the Sepulchre.

ἀσϑενάριον. The infirmary of a convent.

ἄσκησις. The monastic life.

ἀσκητήριον. A monastery consisting of detached hermitages.

ἀσκήτης. 1. Any person of strict life. 2. A hermit.

ἀσκητρία. A nun, a female hermit.

ἀσπαστικόν. The place outside a Church where the Bishop met and saluted pilgrims and strangers. (Lat. salutatorium.)

ἀσπασμός. The kiss of peace.

ἀστερίσκος, ἀστερισμός, ἀστήρ. A star-shaped piece of metal, placed on the paten to support the veil.

ἀστεφάνωτος. Unmarried.

ἀσώματοι. The bodiless Ones, the Angels.

αὐτοδέσποτα μοναστήρια. Convents exempt from diocesan jurisdiction.

αὐτοκέφαλος. A bishop subject to no Patriarch, as the Archbishop of Cyprus now in the East, and of Ravenna formerly in the West.

αὐτόμελον. A hymn not modelled on any of the set forms.

ἄφεδρος. A woman who is ceremonially unclean.

ἀφέσιμον. A prayer of absolution.

ἀφϑαρτοδοκηταί. Heretics who denied the existence of corruption.

ἀφορισμός. A lesser excommunication, or suspension of church privileges.

ἀφυπνιστῆς. The official in a convent charged with wakening the monks for prayer.

ἀφώτιστος. Unbaptized.

ἀψίς. The apse of a church. ΄ [ J

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Βαϑμός. An ecclesiastical rank or grade.

βαΐν, βάϊον, βαΐς. A palm-branch.

*βαπτισίμια. A godmother.

*βαπτισίμιος. Α godfather.

βαπτιστήρ, βαπτιστήριον. A baptistery.

βαπτιστικός. A godfather.

βαρέα. The stroke of a bell or semantrum.

βασιλικαὶ πύλαι. 1. The doors between the narthex and nave. 2. The doors between the porch and narthex.

βασμώϑεοι. Sabbatarians.

βασταγάριος. The bearer of the icon of the patron Saint of a Church in procession.

βηλόϑυρον. The curtain at the entrance of a church.

βῆμα. The sanctuary of a church, where the altar stands.

βηματίκιον. A prayer chanted from the bema.

βημόϑυρον. The veil of the holy doors.

βῆρος. A priestly garment. (Lat. birrus.)

βιβλωγεννεσία. The Gospel of S. Matthew.

βίος. The secular life.

βιῶναι. To live in the world.

βιωτικός. A secular person.

βουλευτήριον. An ornament worn by the Chartophylax.

βουλκόλοκα. A vampire.

βουλλα. 1. A seal. 2. A Papal bull.

βουλλοῦν. To seal.

βουλλωτής. Keeper of the seal.

βουτεῖν. To baptize.

βουτιστής. He who dips the catechumens while the priest repeats the baptismal formula.

βοεφοτροφεῖον. An orphanage.

Γ

Γαδδηνάριος. A cardinal.

γαλιλαία. Easter week, so called from the Lection S. Matth. XXVIII. 10.

γαμμάτιον. A pattern of four gammas in a cross, often used on the alb.

γαρδινάλευς. A cardinal.

γάῤῥαρα. A kind of priests’ cap.

γαρσονοστάσιον. A court before the Church of S. Sophia where the servants (garçons) of nobles waited.

γενάρχης, γεννάρχης. Epithet of Adam.

γεροντικόν. A monastic hagiology.

γεροντοκομεῖον. A hospital for the aged.

γεροντοκόμος. The Warden of such a hospital.

γέρων. 1. A title given to the senior bishops in the African Church. 2. A monk.

γηροτροφεῖον, γηρωκομεῖον. See γεροντοκομεῖον.

γνωσίμαχοι. Sectaries who condemned all secular learning.

γονάτων, ὁ ἐπί. The keeper of a Bishop’s ἐπιγονάτιον.

γονυκλίνοντες. Catechumens permitted to kneel in Church.

γονυκλισία. A genuflection.

γραμματικός. 1. A learned person. 2. A scribe or notary.

γραφικον. A quotation from Scripture.

γυναικῖτις, γυναικωνῖτιρ. The womens’ part of the Church.

Δ

Δαιμονάριος. A demoniac.

δαλματική, δελματική. The dalmatic.

δέησις. A petition or suffrage.

δεικτήριον. A pulpit or ambon.

δεκανικόν. A prison for ecclesiastical offenders.

δεκανός. An apparitor, appointed to summon the clergy to the receipt of their dues.

ἐδεξαμένη. The pool of a baptistery.

δεποτάτος, δηποτάτος, διπότατος. 1. Any deputy. 2. A minor official, candle-bearer or verger.

δεσποτικός. Belonging to Our LORD.

δευτεράριος. The second officer or dignitary in a convent, a Prior.

δευτερεύων. A sub-dean.

δευτερόπασχα. Second Sunday after Easter.

δευτεροπρώτη. Low Sunday.

δεφένσωρ, δηφένσωρ. The chief law-officer of a diocese, answering to the Chancellors and Vicars-general of the West.

διαβαστήρι. A lectern.

διαβαστῆς. A Reader appointed to recite lections from the Lives of the Saints, homilies ἄτα.:

διακαινήσιμος. Renovating; epithet of Easter-week.

διακονήτης. An official in a monastery.

διακονητρία. An official in a nunnery.

διακονία. 1. Any ecclesiastical function. 2. esp. the diaconate. 3. The office of an abbess.

διακονίκιον. The office of-a deacon.

διακονικόν. 1. The Ectene. 2. The Sacristy. 3. A clergyhouse for the deacons of a church.

διακόνισσα. 1. A deaconess. 2. An abbess.

*διαμαρτυρούμενος. A Protestant.

διάστυλα. Chancel-rails.

διάψαλμα. A musical notation in the Psalms (Heb. τ).

διβάμβουλον, διβάμπουλον. A golden lamp borne on state occasions before the Emperor or the Patriarch.

Διβινίτατον. Divinity, Deity.

διδάσκειν. To preach.

διδασκαλίκιον. The office of a preacher.

διδαχή. A sermon.

δικανίκιον. A pastoral staff.

δίκαιος. A vicar or deputy.

δικήριον. A candlestick with two branches.

δικλίδες. The trellised double gates of the older form of the bema.

διμοιρῖται. The Apollinarian heretics.

διοίκησις. A diocese.

διόρϑιμοι. Monks who have quitted their convents.

διπλοκατηχούμενον. A hymn iterated by the catechumens (?).

δίπτυχα, τά. The list of names commemorated in the Liturgy.

δισκάριον. A paten.

δισκοκάλυμμα. The paten-veil.

δισκοποτήριον. A paten with its chalice.

δίσκος. A paten.

δογματικόν. A variety of the Ecclesiastical chant.

δοκηταί. Heretics who denied the physical reality of the Incarnation.

δοκιμασία. The term of probation or noviciate in a monastery.

δοκιμός. A novice.

δομέστικος. The precentor or succentor of a choir.

δοξαστικόν. The special doxology for any festival.

δοξολογία μεγάλη. The Gloria in Excelsis.

δοξολογία μικρά. The Gloria PATRI.

δουλειανοί. Epithet of the Ultra-Arians.

δουλεύεσθαι. To be under penance.

δοχεῖον. The public chest of a convent.

δοχειαρία. The treasurer of a nunnery.

δοχειάριος. The treasurer of a monastery.

δρομικὸς ναός. A basilican church.

δρύφακτον. The chancel-rail.

δύειρμον. A hymn with a double hirmos.

δωδεκαήμερον. The interval between Christmas and Epiphany.

ΜΒ Twelve lights burnt in honour of the Apostles.

δῶρον. 1. Any gift. 2. esp. Baptism and the Holy Eucharist.

Ε

Ἑβδομαδάριος. The cleric responsible for the performance of divine service in any week.

ἐγκαίνια. The dedication of a church.

ἐγκαινίζειν. To dedicate.

ἐγκλειστή. Epithet of Easter Eve.

ἔγκλειστοι. Strictly cloistered monks.

ἐγκλειστήριον. A cloistered monastery.

ἐγκλείστρια. A cloistered nunnery.

ἐγκόλπιον. A pectoral cross or reliquary.

ἐγκράτεια. A fast.

ἐγκρατεῖν. To make a vow of chastity.

ἐγκρατηταί. A Gnostic sect.

ἐγχειρίδιον, ἐγχείριον. A handkerchief or maniple.

ἐθνόφρονες. Christians who follow heathen customs.

εἰκονοστάσιον, εἰκονόστασις. 1. The screen between the Sanctuary and the choir, answering to the altar-rails of the West. 2. A shrine.

εἰκών. A religious picture.

εἴλητάριον. A roll of manuscript.

εἴλητον. An unconsecrated corporal.

εἰρήνη. 1. The kiss of peace. 2. A prayer for peace.

εἰρηνικά. The collects for peace.

εἰρηνικαὶ ἐπιστολαί. Letters commendatory. (Lat. pacificæ.)

εἷρμός. A Hirmus, that portion of a hymn which serves as the rhythmical model of the part immediately succeeding it.

εἰσόδια. Feast of the Presentation B. V. M.

εἰσοδικόν. A prayer at the Entrance.

εἴσοδος. The solemn entrance of the Priest into the Sanctuary. 1. With the Gospels (μικρά). 2. With the Oblations (μεγάλη).

ἔκδικος. A law-officer in an ecclesiastical court, an assessor.

ἔκϑεσις. A confession of faith.

ἐκκήρυκτος. Excommunicated.

ἐκκλησία. 1. The whole church. 2. A place of worship.

ἐκκλησιάζειν. To assemble for public worship.

ἐκκλησιάζεσϑαι. 1. To be admitted on the Canon of Scripture. *2. To be churched (of a woman after child-birth).

*ἐκκλησιαποῦλα. A small church or chapel.

ἐκκλησιάρχης. A sacrist.

ἐκκλησιάρχισσα. A sacrist in a nunnery.

ἐκκλησιαστήριον. A church.

ἔκκλητος. An appeal in an ecclesiastical cause.

ἐκκλητεύειν. To appeal.

ἐκλυτάνειν. To absolve.

ἐκτενή, ἐκτενής. The Great Collect.

†ἐκτύπωμα. A symbolical offering hung up in a church as a memorial of some benefit received. (Lat. ex voto.)

ἐκφώνησις. Exclamation; that part of a prayer &c., which the Priest utters aloud.

ἐμβόλισμος. †A prayer against temptation appended to the Our Father in the Greek Liturgies.

ἔμβολος. The porch of a church.

ἐμφανίσιμα, τά. The fees paid on election to a Canonry in the Great Church of CP.

ἐμφώτιον. The white baptismal robe.

ἔνδειγμα. A phantom.

ἐνδυτή. 1. Any vesture. 2. esp. the outer altar-cloth. 3. A church-hanging or curtain.

ἐνεργούμενος. A demoniac.

ἐνθρονιάζειν, ἐνθρονίζειν. 1. To instal a Bishop or Abbat. 2. To dedicate a Church.

ἐνθρονιασμένος. Epithet of a church capable of being made a Cathedral.

ἐνθρονιασμός, ἐνθρονίασις. 1. Installation of a Bishop or Abbat. 2. The ritual of that ceremony. 3. The dedication of a Church.

ἐνθρονισμός. Fees paid to a Bishop on his installation.

ἔννατα. A nine days’ service for the dead. (Lat. novena.)

ἐνορία. 1. A diocese. 2. A parish.

ἐνοριακός. Parochial.

ἐνορίτης. 1. A parish priest. *2. A parishioner.

ἐνοριτίς. A parish church.

ἔνταλμα, ἐνταλτήριον. A licence to hear confessions.

ἔντευξις. An intercessory prayer.

ἐντολή. 1. A precept of the Church. 2. Commendation of the dead.

ἐντυχία. A prayer for deliverance from enemies.

ἐνυπνιάζεσθαι. Nocte pollui.

ἕνωσις. 1. Any union. 2. esp. the scheme of Constantine Porphyrogenitus to allay the dispute about third marriages.

ἑνωτικόν. The proposal for union between the Catholics and the Eutychians put forward by the Emperor Zeno.

ἐξάβιβλος. The books of Samuel and Kings according to a late Greek division.

ἐξαγγελία. Sacramental confession.

ἐξαγορεία. Sacramental confession,

ἐξαγορεύειν. To make confession.

ἐξαμηναῖον. Office for the dead six months after decease.

ἐξαποστειλάριον. A kind of troparion, probably named from the frequent occurrence in it of the word Ae ρμενμα

ἐξαρχία. An ecclesiastical province.

ἔξαρχος. 1. A Metropolitan bishop. 2. A Visitor. 3. A Chorepiscopus. 4. A Legate.

ἑξώψαλμος. Pss. 3, 38, 63, 88, 103, 143.

ἐξέδρα. An outer building attached to a church. (S. Augustine uses it for the ambon.)

ἐξοδιαστικός. Belonging to burial.

ἐξόδιον, ἔξοδος. Burial.

ἐξομολόγησις. Sacramental confession,

ἐξορκιστής. An exorcist.

ἐξουκόντιοι. The Semi-Arians.

ἐξυπνιστής. A monk appointed to waken sleepers.

ἔξω, ἔξωϑεν, οἷ. Pagans or infidels.

ἐξωκατάκοιλοι. The six great dignitaries of the Church of CP. viz. 1. The Great Œconomus or Steward. 2. The Great Sacellarius. 3. The Great Chartophylax. 4. The Chartophylax. 5. The Sacellarius. 6. The Protoecdicus, or chief assessor. Their title is derived from their sitting in the upper tier of seats in the synthronus, above the κατάκοιλι, or lower row.

ἐξωμονίτατον, A fund set apart in convents for the support of strange monks.

ἐξωμονίτης. A monk who has migrated to a new convent.

ἐξωνάρϑηξ. The outer part of the narthex in a monastic church.

ἐξώπασχα: Non Paschal-tide.

ἐξωχαμαλαύχη. A loose hood at the back of a bishop’s cap.

ἑορταστικά, τά. Donations made to the Church on festivals.

ἑορτή. 1. Any festival. 2. esp. Easter Day.

ἐπάγγελμα. The monastic vow.

ἐπαγόμενα, τά. Intercalary days to make lunar years correspond with solar.

ἐπαρχία. The province of a Metropolitan.

ἐπένξυσις, ἐπενδύτης. The curtain of the altar canopy.

ἐπευχή, ἐπεύχιον. A prayer-carpet.

ἐπιγονάτιον. A lozenge-shaped ornament worn by Bishops at the left side of the girdle.

ἐπίκλησις. An invocation.

ἐπέκλισις. A prostration.

ἐπίκλυσις. Baptismal immersion.

ἐπιμανίκιον, ἐπιμάνικον. The priest’s maniple.

ἔπιπλον. 1. See Ἀήρ. 2. A curtain.

ἐπιῤῥιπτάριον. A monk’s frock.

ἐπισκοπείανος. An official in the court of the Chartophylax.

ἐπισκοπεῖν. To discharge episcopal functions.

ἐπισκοπεῖον. 1. Episcopal rank. 2. A diocese. 3. A Cathedral. 4. A bishop’s house.

ἐπισκοπή. 1. Episcopal rank. 2. A diocese. 3. A Cathedral. 4. A bishop’s house.

ἐπιστήθιος. Epithet of S. John the Divine.

ἐπιστημονάρχης. 1. Epithet of the Eastern Emperor as supreme judge in ecclesiastical causes. 2. The Ceremoniarius of a monastery.

ἐπιστημονάρχισσα. The directress of rites in a nunnery.

ἐπίσχεσις. Suspension from clerical functions.

ἐπισωζομένη. Epithet of Ascension Day.

ἐπιτάφιον. A picture of the Entombment.

ἐπιτηρητής. The censor of a convent.

ἐπιτίμιον. A penance.

ἐπιτραχήλιον. The priest’s stole.

ἐπιφάνεια, -ία. 1. Any festival of our Lord’s appearance. 2. esp. Christmas Day.

ἐπιχύτης. A water- βίου.

ἑπταπάπαδον. The oil for the unction of the sick, consecrated by seven priests.

ἐπωμάδιον, ἐπώμιον, ἐπωμίς. 1. A stole. 2. A scapular.

ἐργοδότρια. The superintendent of work in a nunnery.

ἐρημίτης. A hermit.

*ἐρημοκλήσιον, ἐρημοκλησίακον. A lonely church.

ἐσθής. 1. An altar-cloth. 2. A hanging or curtain.

ἑσπέραι, ἕσπερινόν. Vespers.

ἑστιατόριον. A refectory.

ἐσωμονίτης. A monk in his own monastery.

ἐσωνάρϑηξ. The inner part of the narthex in a monastic church.

ἐσώπασχα. Paschal-tide.

εὐαγγελισμός. The feast of the Annunciation.

εὐαγγελιστάριον. The book of Gospel lections for the year.

εὐκτήριον. An oratory.

εὐλαβέστατος. Title of respect given to ecclesiastics, esp. Bishops or Abbats.

εὐλαβής. 1, Any devout person. 2. A monk.

εὐλογεῖν. To marry.

εὐλογητάρια, τά. A hymn consisting of troparia broken up by the regular insertion of verse 12 of Ps. CXIX.

εὐλογητός. The benediction with which the Greek offices commence.

εὐλογία. 1. A blessing. 2. The antidoron or blessed bread. 3. Alms.

εὐλογιτικός. 1. Married. 2. Born in wedlock.

εὐταξία. The order of a ceremony. ὁ εὐταξέας, a Ceremoniarius. Ἶ

εὐφημία. An ascription of praise.

εὐχέλαιον. The oil for the unction of the sick, consecrated by seven priests.

εὐχολόγιον. An office book containing the Liturgies, Ordinal, Sacramentary &c. of the Greek Church.

*ἐφημερεύειν. To say the office of the day.

*ἐφημερία. The office of the day.

ἐφημέριος. 1. The cleric in turn of duty on any day. 2. A domestic chaplain. 3. The monk who gives the παναγία before meals.

ἐφόδιον. 1. The viaticum or communion of the dying. 2. Baptism.

ἐφύμνιον. 1. A hymn. 2. The repetition of the antiphon.

Ζ

Ζέον. Warm water used for the ablutions in the Liturgy.

ζευγάρια, τά. Fasts of two days’ duration. (Lat. biduane.)

ζυγός. The rite of laying the Gospels on the head of a candidate for ordination.

ζώδιον. 1. A sign or seal. 2. A statue or idol.

Η

Ἡγουμενεία, -ία. 1. Abbatial rank. 2. A monastery of the second class.

ἡγουμενεύειν. To be superior of a monastery.

ἡγουμένη. 1. The abbess of a second-class nunnery. 2. The prioress of a first-class one.

ἡγουμενιάρχης. The hospitaller of a convent.

ἡγουμένισσα. An abbess.

ἡγούμενος. 1. The abbat of a second-class convent. 2. The prior of a first-class one.

ἡσυχάζειν. To adopt a solitary life.

ἡσυχαστήριον. A hermitage.

ἡσυχαστης. A hermit or quietist.

ἡσυχάστρια. A female hermit.

ἦχος. A tone, in ecclesiastical music.

Θ

Θάλασσα, ϑαλασσίδιον. A piscina or recess below the altar.

ϑεανδρικός. Pertaining to the God-Man.

ϑεογενέσιον. Holy Baptism.

ϑεοδόχος. Epithet of S. Simeon.

ϑεολογία. Any dissertation on the nature and attributes of the Deity.

ϑεόλογος. A Divine. Epithet of S. John and of S. Gregory Nazianzen.

ϑεομητορικός. Belonging to Β. V. M.

θεομήτωρ. The Blessed Virgin.

ϑεοπάτωρ. Epithet of CnrisT’s ancestors, especially King David and S. Joachim.

ϑεοπρομήτωρ. S. Anne.

ϑεόπτης. Epithet of Moses.

ϑεοφανεία. The Epiphany.

ϑεοφιλής, ϑεοφιλέστατος. Title of Bishops.

ϑεράπεια. A penance.

ϑεραπευτής. 1. A deacon. †2. A monk.

ϑεώρητρον. A gift made by a bridegroom on the day when the bride shews herself in public.

ϑεώριος. An official appointed to keep order in the Great Church.

θεωρός. A sacrist, keeper of the church-plate &c.

ϑηκάριον, A shrine.

ϑήκη. A coffin.

ϑρονιστής. A Bishop who assists at the consecration of another.

ϑρόνιον. A portable seat for a Bishop.

ϑρονισμός. Installation of a Bishop.

ϑρόνος. 1. The Bishop’s throne. ὃ. Episcopal rank. 3. Title of respect given to Bishops. 4. δούεθρος, The Priesthood.

θυμίαμα. Incense.

ϑυμιατόν. A censer or thurible.

ϑυμιατήριον. A censer or thurible.

ϑύραϑεν, ϑύραζε, of. Pagans or infidels,

ϑυραί. The doors of a church. 1. ὃ. ἀγγελικαί. Between choir and nave. 2. ὃ. ἅγιαι. Between bema and choir. 3. ϑ. βασιλικαί. Between nave and narthex. 4. ὃ. πλάγιαι. The side doors of the bema, right and left of the ἅγιαι. 5. ὃ. ὡραῖαι. The outer doors of the narthex.

ϑυρεπανοίξια. The solemn opening of a church.

ϑυρωρός. A doorkeeper, a minor clerical functionary. (Lat. ostiarius.)

ϑυσιαστήριον. 1. The altar. †2. The bema.

ϑύτης. A priest.

Ι

Ἰδιάζειν. To be a recluse.

ἰδιάριον. A benefice.

ἰδιόμελον. A hymn which is its own model, and has no hirmos.

ἰδιόριϑμος. A religious not bound by cœnobitical rule, but partially independent and self-supporting, and partly maintained by an ἀδόλφατον, or prebend.

ἰδιόχειρον. The profession of faith made by the Emperor at his coronation. ἃ

ἰδιώτης. A lay monk.

ἱερά, ἡ. The clergy.

ἱερατεῖον. 1. The sanctuary or bema. ᾿ 2. The nave. 3. The congregation in the nave, 4. A clerical assembly.

ἱερατικός. A priest.

ἱεροδιάκονος. A monk in deacon’s orders.

ἱεροκήρυξ. Epithet of S. Paul.

ἱερολογεῖν. 1. To pronounce a benediction. 2. esp. the nuptial one.

ἱερομάρτυρ. Holy Martyr. This title is confined to Martyrs in holy orders.

ἱερομνήμων. An official of the Great Church. He had charge of the roll of Bishops, and in case of a vacancy in any diocese, it was his business to appoint Readers, and to consecrate Churches.

ἱερομόναχος. A monk in holy orders.

ἱερουργεῖν. To celebrate the Liturgy.

ἱερουργία. The Liturgy.

*ἱεροφυλάκιον. The sacristy.

ἱεροψάλτης. An ordained singer.

ἱλαστήριον. The bema.

ἰνδικτίων, ἴνδικτος. The beginning of the Ecclesiastical year. Sept. 1.

ἵπνος. The piscina.

ἰσαπόστολος. A title of certain Saints. 1. Bishops consecrated by Apostles. 2. Holy women who would have been Apostles if men, as S. Mary Magdalene. 3. Princes who established Christianity, as Constantine the Great. 4. The first preacher of the Faith in any country.

ἱστᾶν. To recite in order.

ἱστορία. A picture.

ἱστοριογράφος, ἱστορίτης. A painter.

Κ

Καβαλλία, τά. Written musical notes.

κάγγελος, κάγκελλον, κάγκελος. The rails of the bema; the iconostasis.

καϑαιρεῖσϑαι. To be deposed from clerical functions.

καϑαρίζεσϑαι. To be dispossessed of a demon.

καϑαροί. The Novatians.

καϑέδρα. 1. Any seat in a church. 2. esp. the Bishop’s throne. 3. A see. 4. The session of a Council.

καϑεδρατικόν. The fee paid by a newly-consecrated Bishop to his consecrators.

καϑηγητής. An abbat.

καϑηγουμενεύειν. To preside over a convent.

καϑηγουμένισσα. An abbess.

καϑηγούμενος. An abbat.

κάϑημα. A Bishop’s throne.

καϑιέρωσις. Consecration.

κάϑισμα. 1. One of the twenty portions into which the Psalter is divided. 2. A hymn sung while the congregation sits. †3. A hermitage.

καθισμάτιον. A hermitage or separate cell.

καϑολικός. 1. Catholic. 2. Metropolitan. 3. Title of the Patriarchs of some Eastern communions. 4. Parochial, as καϑολικὴ ἐκκλησία means a parish church with a font.

καϑοσιοῦν. To condemn solemnly.

καϑοσίωσις. Devotion.

καϑοσιώμενος. One who is vowed or devoted.

κακόσκοπος. An officer appointed to keep order in choir.

καλαμάριον. A pen-case.

καλαμοῦν. To strip, to despoil.

καλανδολόγια. Pagan books of rites to be performed on the Calends.

καλικάντζαρος. A demon or vampire, supposed to have special power during the octave of Christmas.

καλλιεργοῦντες. Benefactors of a church or convent.

καλλιμάρτυρ. A female martyr.

καλογερικός. Monastic.

καλόγερος, -γῆρος. A monk, caloyer.

καλογηρεύειν. To become a monk.

καλογηρίτζιν. A little monk.

καλογραία. A nun.

καλομαντάτον. The Gospel.

καλυβίτης. A hermit-monk.

καμαλαυχή, &c. A Bishop’s cap. This word is spelt in a great variety of ways, often commencing with χ.

κάμασος. A woollen garment.

καμίλαβα. A kind of veil hanging from a monk’s cap.

καμισάτος. An official charged with the care of the vessels for heating water for the Church.

καμίσιον. An alb.

καμπάνα. A bell.

καμπανάριον. A bell-tower.

καμπανός. A balance.

κανάλιον. A highway.

κανδήλα τοῦ εὐχελαίου. A lamp fed with prayer-oil, burnt before the icon of CaRIsT.

κανδηλάπτης. The official in charge of the church-lights.

κανοναρίον. A collection of Canons.

κανοναρχεῖν. To lead a choir.

κανονάρχης. The precentor of a choir,

κανονίζειν. 1. To enact a Canon. 2. To make canonical. 3. To impose a penance.

κανονικάριος. One to whom κανονικὸν No. 1. is paid.

κανονική. A Deaconess, Virgin or Widow on the Canon.

κανονικον. 1. A fee at ordination. 2. A penitential.

κανονικός. 1. Canonical. 2. One whose name is on the Canon, an ecclesiastic.

κανόνιον. 1. A Dominical table. 2. A ritual law.

κανών. 1. Any ecclesiastical law. 2. The list of those who have a share in the Church funds. (Lat. matricula.) 3. The public office of the Church. 4. A penitential. 5. The rule of a monastic order. 6. A hymn, properly consisting of nine Odes. 7. A harmony of the Gospels.

καπάσιον. The cap of a Patriarch.

καπελάνος. The verger or sexton of a church.

κάπελλον. See καπασιον.

καπετώλιον. The chapter-house of a monastery.

καπικλάριος. A gaoler.

καρακάλλιον. A cowl.

καρποφοροῦντες. Benefactors of a church or convent.

καστρήνσιος. An official entrusted with the care of the Patriarchal insignia, and with certain functions in the Liturgy.

καταβαπτίζειν. To baptize invalidly.

καταβασία. A hymn sung in the midst of the choir by the singers of each side, who come down from their stalls.

καταβάσιον. A crypt for reliques under the Altar. (Lat. confessio.)

κατάδυσις. Baptismal immersion.

κατάϑεμα. A curse.

καταϑεσία. The deposition of reliques.

κατακλαστόν. The antidoron or blessed bread.

καταλλαγή. Reconciliation to the Church.

κατάλυσις. The cessation or mitigation of a fast.

κατανυκτιηός. Compunctory, penitential.

καταπέτασμα. 1. The veil of the baldachin or canopy of the Altar. 2. That of the holy doors. 3. Another name for the ἄήρ.

κατάσαρκα. The inner altar-cloth.

κατάστασις. 1. Any regular form. 2. esp. the creation of a Bishop.

κατζί. A censer used on Maundy Thursday to dry the Hosts intended for the Communion of the sick. These are dipped in common wine, placed on the paten, and then exposed to the heat.

κατηγοριάρης. The official who announces the festivals and fasts to the people.

κατηχεῖν. To catechize, to prepare for baptism.

κατήχησις. A catechism.

κατηχήτης. A catechist.

κατηχούμενον. The womens’ gallery in a church.

κατηχούμενος. A catechumen.

κατωκαμηλαύχιον. The outer part of the double monastic cap.

κειμηλιαρχεῖον. The treasure-chamber of a church.

κειμηλιάρχης. The treasurer of a church.

κειμηλιοφύλαξ. The treasurer of a church.

κεκραγάριον. Exclamatory; epithet of Pss. 142—3.

κέλλα. A monastic cell.

κελλάριος, κελλαρέτης. The cellarer of a convent.

κέλλη, κέλλιον. See κέλλα.

κελλιώτης. Α recluse monk.

κεντονάριον, κεντώνιον. A patchwork garment worn by monks.

κέριον. A taper.

κεφαλοκλισία. An obeisance.

κηροφόρος. A candle-bearer.

κήρυξ. 1. An Apostle. 2. A Dominican or Friar Preacher.

κιβώριον. 1. The baldachin or canopy of the Altar. *2. A grave or coffin.

κιγκλίδες. The altar-rails or iconostasis.

κιόνια καὶ στήϑεα. A name of the older form of the iconostasis.

κιονίτης. A pillar-monk.

*κλαδεόρτη. Palm-Sunday.

κλάσματα, κλαστόν. The antidoron, or blessed bread.

κλεινώδιον. A jewel, a treasure. (Germ. Kleinod.)

κλεπτάββας. Α pretended monk.

κλῆμα. A region or province.

κληρικάτον. 1. A rank of the hierarchy. 2. Any minor ecclesiastical function discharged by those below the grade of Deacon.

κληρικός. An ecclesiastic.

κλῆρος. 1. The body of the clergy. 2. Ecclesiastical rank.

κλῆσις. The feast of the Circumcision.

κόγχη,. 1. The shell-like roof of the apse. 2. The apse itself.

κοίμησις. 1. Death. 2. The feast of the Assumption.

κοιμητήριον. A cemetery.

κοινοβιακός. A cœnobite, a monk.

κοινοβιάρχης. An abbat.

κοινόβιον. The common-room or dwelling of a monastery.

κοινωϑῆναι. To secularize.

κοινωνεῖν. To communicate.

κοινωνία. Sacramental communion.

κηινωνικαὶ ἐπιστολαί. Letters of pardon granted to the lapsed.

κοινωνικόν. 1. A sacramental hymn, such as the Western Tantum ergo. 2. A stichos in the Liturgy before the communion.

κοινωνικός. One of the same communion.

*κολιαντά, τά. Christmas Eve.

*κολιαντόν. A cake given to children who go from house to house at Christmas, singing “CHRIST is born”.

*κόλλαβος. Boiled wheat distributed at funerals.

κολόβιον. A dalmatic.

κόλυβον. A wheaten cake distributed in churches on the first Saturday in Lent, also at Masses for the dead.

κολυμβήϑρα. A font or baptistery.

κολύμβιον. A holy-water stoup or benatura.

κόλυμβος. A font.

*κομβοσχοίνιον. A rosary.

κομπολόγι. A rosary.

κοντάκιον. 1. A short hymn (qy? canticum). 2. A roll of MS.

κοπιατής. A gravedigger.

κορμή. A body.

κορυφαῖος. A Bishop.

*κκορώνετα. A rosary.

κοσμικόν. The world.

κοσμικός. A secular person.

κοσμοκράτωρ. Epithet of Satan.

κόσμος. The world of secular life.

κουβουκλείσιος, κουβούκλης. The staff-bearer of a Bishop.

κουβούκλιον. 1. A tabernacle for the Host. 2. A campanile of the same form.

κουκοῦλλα. A chrisom-veil.

κουκούλλιον. A cowl.

κουμεντούρι. A Knight Commander of the Hospitallers or Templars.

κουρά. The tonsure.

κούτζουλον. A woollen robe.

κράββατος. A bed.

κράκτης. A hymnal noted.

κρατήρ. A chalice.

κρηπίς. The footpace of the Altar.

κρέσες. † The approval of the list of candidates for baptism or holy orders. (Lat. scrutinium.)

κροῦσμα. The signal for assembling to worship.

κτεναρίαι ϑυραί. The royal doors of S. Sophia.

κτητορικὸν δίκαιον. Right of patronage.

κτήτωρ. The founder of a church or convent.

κτίστωρ. The founder of a church or convent.

κύκλιον. The apse.of a church.

κυλινδρωτόν. †A circular church.

κυνηγός. A fighter with wild beasts, a gladiator.

κυριακῆ. Sunday. x. τοῦ ἀντίπασχα. Low Sunday. x. τοῦ ἀποκρέως. Sexagesima Sunday. x. τοῦ ἀσώτου. Septuagesima Sunday. x. τῶν βαΐων. Palm Sunday. x. τοῦ Θωμᾶ. Low Sunday. x. τοῦ Λούκα. Sixteen Sundays are thus named. The first is the 17th after Trinity, and the last is the 3d after Epiphany. They are also known, as well as the next series, by the name of the subject of the Lection. x. τοῦ ατϑαίου. The fifteen Sundays next after Pentecost. x. τῶν Mvgo- φόρων. 2d Sunday after Easter. x. τῶν φηστειῶν πρώτη, κτῖ. The Sundays of Lent. x. τῆς Ὀρϑοδο- ξίας. The first Sunday in Lent. κ. τοῦ παραλύτου. 3d Sunday after Easter. x. τοῦ Πάσχα... Easter Day. x. τῆς Πεντηκοστῆς. Whitsun Day. x. τῆς Σαμαρεί- τιδος. Fourth Sunday after Easter. x. τοῦ τελώνου καὶ τοῦ Φαρισαέου. 3d Sunday after Epiphany. κ. τοῦ τυροφάγου. Quinquagesima Sunday. x. ὑψώσεως. πρὸ τῆς. Sunday before Ascension. x. υψῶσιν, μετὰ τὴν. Sunday after Ascension. x. φῶτα, μετὰ τά. 1st Sunday after Epiphany. κ. φωτῶν, πρὸ τῶν. Sunday before Epiphany.

κυριακή, κυριακόν. -A church.

κυριακοδρόμιον εὐαγγέλιον. The Sunday Gospels for the year.

κυρρπρεσβυτρία. Epithet of B. V. M.

Λ

Λάβαρον. The sacred standard of the Lower Empire. ᾿

λάβις. The holy spoon used in the Liturgy.

λάζαρος. One lately dead.

λαζαροῦν. To bury.

λαζάρωμα. Grave-clothes.

λαζάρωσις. 1. A corpse prepared for burial. 2. The act of burial.

λαϊκός. A lay person.

λαμπαδάριος. A candle-bearer.

λαμπρὰ ἡμέρα. Easter Day.

*λαμπρητιατικά, τά. Easter gifts.

*λαμπρητικός. Paschal.

λαμπρὸν, τό. Fire.

*λαμπρόσχολα, τά. Easter holidays.

λαμπροφορεῖν. To put on white apparel.

λαμπροφορία. White apparel.

λαμπροφόρος. Splendour-bearing; Epithet of Easter Day.

λαός. The laity.

λαοσυνάκτης. An official appointed to convene the clergy and laity on solemn occasions.

*λατῖνος, λατινόφρων. A Roman Catholic.

λαῦρα. A collection of monastic cells.

λαυρίτης. An inhabitant of a laura.

Λαυσαϊκόν. The Lives of the Saints by Palladius, dedicated to Lausus.

λεβητών, λεβητονάριον, λεβιτών. A sleeveless surplice. (Lat. Levitonarium.)

λεβητών συνακτικός. The vestment worn by monks at their first reception, at communion, and at burial.

λειτουργεῖν. 1. To discharge any public clerical function. 2. esp. to celebrate the Liturgy.

λειτουργία. 1. Any ecclesiastical function. 2. esp. the Holy Eucharist. 3. A missal.

λειτουργεῖσϑαι. To hear mass.

λειτουργικόν. A missal.

λειτουργός. A deacon.

λείψανα. Reliques of Saints.

λευιτών. See λεβητών.

λιτανεία. 1. A litany. 2. A procession.

λιτανεύειν. To go in procession.

λιτή. A procession with prayers and hymns.

λῖτον. An altar-cloth.

λιτῶς. In monotone, without modulation; or in a low tone.

λογοϑέτης. The keeper of the Patriarchal seal.

λόγχη. The holy spear used to divide the Host.

λουτήρ, λουτήριον. A baptistery.

λύειν. To break a fast.

†λυχναψία. Seven Collects said before the Prefatory Psalm at Vespers.

λυχνικόν. The first part of Vespers.

λωβεία. Leprosy.

λωβός. A leper.

λωβοτροφεῖον. A lazar-house.

λώρια, τα. The wavy bands on a bishop’s cope.

Μ

Μαγαρίζειν. 1. To pollute. 2. To become a Mohammedan.

μαγαρίτης. A renegade.

μάζη, μάξι. Together with.

μάξηλος. A basin.

μάϑημα. The Apostles’ Creed.

μαϑητεῖον. A church dedicated to Apostles.

μακαρισμοί. The Beatitudes.

μακαριώτατος. Title of the Patriarch of Alexandria.

μακαριώτης. Title of respect to Bishops, esp. the Patriarch of CP.

μακρών. The oblong portico of the Great Church of CP.

μανδήλιον. See μανδύλιον.

μανδρά. 1. A sheepfold. 2. A monastery.

μανδρεύειν. To become a monk.

μανδρίτης. A monk.

μανδρογέρων. An aged monk.

μανδύας. 1. A monk’s cloak. 2. A cope.

μανδύλιον. 1. A napkin or maniple. 2. μ. ἅγιον. A Veronica.

μάννα. Perfumed oil said to flow from the reliques of certain Saints.

μανσιονάριος. The resident verger of a church. (Lat. mansionarius.)

μαντήλιον, μαντίλιον. A napkin or maniple.

μάντισσα. A witch.

μανουάλιον, A hand-candlestick.

μαργαρίτης. A particle of the Host.

μαργαρίτις. A pyx.

μαργέλλιον. An ornament stitched on a vestment.

μαργώνιον. A wallet or scrip.

μάρτυρ, μάρτυς. A martyr.

μαρτυρεῖν. To suffer martyrdom.

μαρτυρίζειν. To inflict martyrdom.

μαρτυρικόν. A hymn in praise of a martyr.

μαρτυριον. 1. Martyrdom. 2. A church dedicated to a martyr.

μαρτυρογραφίον, μαρτυρολόγιον. The acts of one or more martyrs.

μασγίδιον. A mosque.

ματρίκιον, μάτριξ. 1. A mother church, with dependent parishes or chapelries. 2. A Cathedral.

μαυλισία. Impurity. (Lat. mollities.)

μαφόριον. A wimple or large veil.

μεγαλεῖον. A jewelled copy of the Gospels. (?) Goar translates “Magnificat” but?

μεγάλη. An abbess.

μεγαλομάρτυρ. A title given to some distinguished martyrs. ‘ἃ

μεγαλοσχημεῖν. To take the full monastic habit, to make final profession.

μεγαλόσχημος. A fully professed monk.

μεγαλυνάρια, τα. Hymns of praise, usually beginning with the word μεγαλυνον.

μέγας. An abbat or senior monk.

μεϑεόρτιον. The morrow of a festival.

μελανείμων. Black-robed, epithet of monks.

μελλοκουρίτης. A candidate for the tonsure.

μελλοφώτιστος. A catechumen.

μελχῖται. Followers of the Sovran, epithet given to the Catholics after the Council of Chalcedon by the Eutychians.

μελώδημα. A long hymn or Canon.

μελῳδός. A hymn-writer, esp. S. Cosmas.

μεμόριον. 1. A church built over a martyr’s grave. 2. A tomb. (Lat. memoria.)

μεμορίτης. The priest of a μεμύριον.

μεμοροφύλαξ. The verger of a μεμόριον.

μενούριοι. Friars Minor, Franciscans.

μερίς. A portion of the Host.

μεσατώριον. 1. The dwelling of the verger of a church. 2. †The sacristy.

μέση (ἐκκλησία). The nave of a church. (στάσις) The mid - division of the psalms said in any office.

μεσίτης. 1. The Mediator. 2. A bishop who administers a diocese during the vacancy of the See. (Lat. intercessor.)

μεσόναος. The centre of a church.

μεσονήστιμος. Midlent week.

μεσονυκτικόν. The midnight office, answering to the Western Matins.

μεσοπεντηκοστή. Wednesday of the fourth week after Easter.

μεσώριον. The office said in the intervals between the Hours of Prime, Terce, Sext, None, and Vespers.

μετάδοσις. Sacramental communion.

μεταδοῦναι. To communicate another:

μεταϑέσιμον. The translation of a Bishop.

μετακίνησις. The translation of a Bishop.

μεταλαμβάνειν. To receive the Holy Communion.

μετάληψις. 1. The act of communicating. 2. esp. said of receiving the chalice. 3. Also the reception of the antidoron. 4. and of holy water.

μετανοεῖν. To do penance.

μετανοία. 1. Repentance. 2. Penance. 3. An obeisance or low reverence (once restricted to penitents). 4. A penitentiary for fallen women.

μετανώστης. A penitent.

μεταποίησις. Eucharistic transmutation.

μετάστασις. 1. A spiritual change; sacramental term applied to Baptism and the Holy Eucharist. 2. μ. ϑεοτόκου. The Feast of the Assumption.

μετατώριον. See μεσατώριον.

μετενϑρονιάζειν. To translate a Bishop.

μέτεξις. Sacramental communion.

μετουσίωσις. Transubstantiation.

*μετόχιον. 1. A convent. 2. A farm belonging to a convent. (Lat. grangia.) 3. †A cell subject to a monastery.

μετριώτης. A term of humility used by Patriarchs.

μηερεύς, μιερεύς. A false priest.

μηλωτάριον, μηλωτή. A sheepskin dress.

μηναῖον. A book containing the offices of a month.

μηνολόγιον. The Martyrology.

μῆνυμα. The public announcement of the Election of a new Patriarch.

μηξόμηλον. A pyx for the communion of the sick.

μητροπάρϑενος. Epithet of the Blessed Virgin.

μητρόπολις. 1. The see of a metropolitan. 2. Epithet of Christmas Day.

μητροπολίτης. A metropolitan Bishop.

μίαν μίαν. Little by little, gradually.

μικρόσχημος. One who has taken the lesser monastic habit; a probationer.

*μινσατώριον. The sacristy.

μιτατώριον. See μεσατώριον.

μνεία. Liturgical commemoration.

μνημεῖον. A tomb,

μνήμη. 1. A tomb. 2. A church in which there is the tomb of a Saint. (Lat. memoria.) 3. The anniversary of a Saint’s Day. 4. Burial of the dead.

μνημονεύειν. 1. To commemorate in the Liturgy. 2. To bury the dead.

μνημόσυνον. 1. Liturgical commemoration. 2. The burial office.

μοιρολογίστρα, μοιρολογήτρια, μορολόγυστρις. A hired female mourner.

μοῖχος. An intrusive Bishop.

μολυβίς, μολυβίδιον. The cork float of a lamp.

μοναδικός, μονάζων, μοναστής. A monk.

μοναστήριον. A monastery.

μοναστρία. A nun,

μοναχεῖον. A monastery.

μόναχος. A monk.

μόνη. A convent.

μονίδιον. A small convent.

μονοίκιον. A small country parish.

μονολόγιστος. He with one thought (i. e. prayer), an epithet of monks.

μόνος. A monk.

μονοσιτεῖν. To eat only once a day.

μονότροπος. United, accordant; epithet of monks.

μονύδριον. A small convent.

μονοφαγία. The one meal of stricter monks.

μονοφυσῖται. Heretics who denied the existence of two natures in Christ.

μούσα [μάω, μάσσω]. A piece of compressed sponge fastened to the maniple, and used for cleansing the paten.

μοχϑηρός. An ass.

*μπατίκιον. Fee paid for a licence to officiate.

μυάκιον, μύαξ. The apse of a church.

μυροβλύτης. A Saint from whose reliques perfumed oil was said to exude.

μύρον. 1. The Holy Chrism. 2. See μάννα.

μυροδότης. The keeper of the Chrism.

μυρορόης. See μυροβλύτης.

μυροφόροι. The Ointment-bearers, the Holy women at the Sepulchre.

μυσταγωγεῖν. To baptize.

μυσταγωγία. 1. The Liturgy. 2. Instruction before baptism.

μυστήριον. A sacrament.

μυστικὸς ὕμνος. The Trisagion.

μυστικῶς. Secretly, inaudibly.

μωρά. A witch.

Ν

Ναζαραῖος. A Nazarene; epithet of monks.

νάμα. Wine for the Holy Eucharist.

ναός. The nave of a parochial church, or the choir of a monastic one.

νάρδιον. Unconsecrated chrism.

νάρδος. An outer vessel in which the box of chrism is placed.

ναρϑηξ. 1. A staff, esp. a monk’s. 2. The part of a church between the porch and the nave, allotted to penitents and catechumens.

ναυτολόγος. †A catechist.

*νεκροκαμπάνα. A passing bell.

νεκρώσιμον. A hymn for the dead.

νεοκουρίτης. A monastic novice.

νεόνυμφος. A bridegroom before the marriage ceremony.

νεόφυτος. 1. A newly converted or baptized Christian. 2. One raised suddenly from the laity to the episcopate, as S. Ambrose and S. Tarasius.

νεοφώτιστος. A newly baptized person.

νεφέλη. Another name for the ἀήρ.

νεωκάγκελλος. The altar - σδὶ].

νεωκόρος. A doorkeeper or verger.

νῆμα. A garment.

νηστεία. 1. Any fast. 2. Lent.

νηστευτής, νηστικάρης. A faster.

νοεραὶ δυνάμεις, νόες. Intelligences; angels.

νομικός. The judge of appeal in rubrical questions.

νομοδότης. 1. The official intrusted with the supervision of the Calendar and rubrics. 2. The Almoner of the ᾿ Great Church.

νομοκανών. 1. A book of canons. 2. A penitential.

νονίς. 1. (Egypt.) A nun. 2. (Lat.) The nones of a month.

νοννή. A nun.

νοννός. A monk.

νοσοκομεῖον. The infirmary of a convent.

γνοσοκόμος. The infirmarer.

†νοσφισμός. Separation, loneliness.

νουμμοδότης. See νομοδότης N° 2.

*νοῦννα, νοῦννος. A sponsor.

νυμφαῖον. A font for ablutions outside a church-door.

νυκτεγερσία. The vigil of a great festival.

Ξ

Ξενοδοχεῖον. The guest-chamber of a convent.

ξενοδόχος. The Hospitaller of a convent.

ξενοκουρίτης. A monk from a strange convent.

ξένων. See ξενοδοχεῖον..

*ξεπαπαδεύω. To abandon the clerical life.

*ξεπαπαδίζω. To depose a priest.

ξεραένειν, ξέρνειν. To vomit. ξεστή,

ξεστός. A ewer.

ξηρόκηπος. An unpaved court.

ξηροφαγία. Lenten diet, such as bread, dried fruit ἂς.

ξυλολάτρης. An epithet given to the Catholics by the Iconoclasts.

ξύλον. 1. The Cross. 2. The rack. (Lat. equuleus.) 3. A piece of wood used instead of a church-bell.

ξωπέτασθον. The curtain at the entrance of a church.

ξωστῆς. The outer porch of a church.

Ο

Ὀγκῖνος. A hook used in torture. (Lat. uncinus.)

οδηγητρία. Guide; epithet of B. V. Μ. Reins)

οδηγήτρια. The picture of the Virgin and Child ascribed to S. Luke, and placed by the Empress S. Pulcheria in the Church τῶν ὁδηγῶν.

οἰκία. The cell of a monastic official.

οἰκιακός. The occupant of an οἰκία.

οἰκίσκος. A side-chapel.

οἰκοδομεῖν. To edify, to instruct.

οἰκοδομία. Edification.

οἰκονομία. 1. Providential plan or government. 2. Reserve on points of doctrine. 3. Hospitality.

οἰκονομεῖον. The store-room of a convent.

οἰκονόμος. The administrator of the revenues of a diocese or convent: a steward.

οἶκος. A short hymn in honour of God or of a Saint. (Ital. stanza.)

οἰκουμενικός. Universal. A title given to the General Councils and to the Patriarchs of Rome and Constantinople.

οἰνοχόη. The cellarer of a nunnery.

ὀκταήμερον. Eight days’ fast before a great festival.

ὀκτώηχος. An office book containing the ferial services from the Saturday Vespers to the end of the Sunday Liturgy.

ὁλοκρεατική. The week but one before the Lenten fast.

ὁμιλεῖν. To preach.

ὁμιλία. A sermon or charge, esp. a bishop’s.

ὅμοιον. A hymn of the same rhythm as that which precedes it,

ὁμολογεὶν. 1. To suffer for the Faith. 2. To confess one’s sins.

ὁμολογητής. A sufferer for the Faith.

ὁμολογία. 1. Confession. 2. Monastic profession.

ὀμφαλός. The centre of a church.

ὀρϑοδοξία. 1. The true Faith. 2. Epithet of the first Sunday in Lent, on which the defeat of the Iconoclasts is celebrated.

ὄρϑρος. The office of Dawn, answering to the Western Lauds.

ὁρμάξειν. To betroth.

ὄρμαστρα, τά. The rite of betrothal.

ogos. 1. A definition or Canon. 2. The boundary of an asylum attached to a church.

ὄρφανος. 1. Any orphan. 2. A chorister-boy.

ὁσιομάρτυρ. A title of certain eminent martyrs, whether men or women.

ὄχλος. The laity.

ὀψάριον. A fish.

ὀψίκιον. Attendance on any one; company. (Lat. obsequium.)

ὀψικεύειν. To attend upon; to accompany.

Π

Παιδαριογέρων. Epithet of S. Macarius of Egypt.

παλιγγενεσία. 1. Regeneration; new birth. 2. Baptism.

παλιντοκία. 1. Regeneration; new birth. 2. Baptism

παμμακάριστος. Epithet of B. V. M.

παναγία. 1. Epithet of the Blessed Virgin. 2. A piece of bread cut cross-wise, and distributed to the monks in the refectory before a meal by an official.

παναγιάριον. The dish on which the σεαναγία is placed

παναγιότης. Title of respect given to Patriarchs.

παναγιώτατος. Title of the Patriarch of CP.

πανάρετος. The Book of Ecclesiasticus.

πανηγυρικόν. A book of festival sermons.

πανηγυρίζειν. To keep a feast.

πανηγύριον. 1. A festival. 2. The Liturgy.

πανήγυρις. 1. A festival. 2. A festival sermon.

πανιερότης, πανιερώτατος. Title of Bishops.

παννυχεύειν. To keep vigil.

παννυχίς. A vigil.

πανοσιότης, πανοσιώτατος. Title of inferior ecclesiastics.

παντοχράτωρ. 1. Epithet of the Deity. 2. Title of the Provincial of several monasteries.

παξαμαάς, παξαμίς. 1. Biscuit. 2. Coarse ration-bread, used by soldiers and monks.

*παπάδευμα. Ordination of a priest.

*παπαδεύω. To ordain.

*παπαδία. A priest’s wife.

παπαδίζειν. To ordain.

παπαδίσκιον. A young priest.

*παπάδισσα. A priest’s wife.

παπαδίτζης. A cleric.

*παπαδοποῦλα, παπαδοποῦλον. Daughter or son of a priest.

παπαδούριον. An insignificant priest.

παπαλήϑρα. 1. A priest’s cap. 2. The tonsure.

πάπας. The Pope, of Rome or Alexandria.

παπᾶς, παππᾶς. A parish priest.

παραβαλανεῖς. See παραβολάνοι.

παραβάπτισμα. Irregular baptism.

†παραβήματα, τά. The prothesis and sacristy, when divided by walls from the central bema.

παραβολάνοι. District visitors of the sick, esp. in Alexandria.

παράϑεσις. 1. A commendatory prayer. 2. esp. the Bishop’s benediction of the catechumens.

παραινεῖν. To exhort.

παραίνεσις. A hortatory sermon.

παρακαλία. Intercession.

παρακαταϑήκη. The reserved Sacrament for the sick, consecrated on Maundy Thursday.

παρακέλλιον. A subsidiary cell.

παράκλησις. 1. A supplication. 2. A procession. 3. An extra allowance at a conventual table. (Lat. consolatio.)

παρακλητική, παρακλητικόν. An office-book containing the ferial hymns set to each of the eight tones.

παράκλητος, παρακλήτωρ. The Comforter.

παρακοντάκιον. A respond.

παραλαύριον. A small or subsidiary laura.

παράμανδυ. A kind of small scapular, embroidered with the Cross &c., worn by monks under the mandyas.

παραμένων. A candidate for admission into a monastery.

παραμονάριον. The verger’s chamber.

παραμονάριος. The resident verger of a church. (Lat. mansionarius.)

παραμονή. The vigil of a festival.

παραμυϑία. An extra allowance at a conventual table.

παράνυμφος. 1. A groomsman. 2. A sponsor.

†παραπόρτια, τα. The side doors of the iconostasis.

παράπτερον. A side aisle.

παρασκευή. Friday. π. μεγάλη. Good Friday.

παράστασις. The attendance of the Emperor in state at Church.

παρασυναγωγή. A conventicle, a heretical assembly.

παρασύναξις. A conventicle, a heretical assembly.

παρατράπεζον. A credence-table.

παραφωνιστής. A chorister.

παραφώτισμα. Irregular baptism.

πάρεδρος. The verger of a church.

παρεκκλήσιον. A chapel close beside a church.

παρϑενεῖον, παρϑενών. A nunnery.

παροικία. 1. A diocese. 2. A parish.

παροικονόμος. A deputy steward.

παροιμιαστής. The writer of any part of the Book of Proverbs.

παρουσία. 1. The Nativity. 2. π. δεύτερα. The Last Day.

παρόχιον. A parish.

παστοφορία, τά. †See παραβήματα.

πάσχα. 1. Easter Day. 2. The Holy Eucharist. 3. π. ψομικόν. The Passover.

πασχάζειν. 1. To celebrate Easter. 2. To bless, and subsequently eat of bread, eggs and cheese, after the Liturgy on Easter Day.

πασχαλία. The Easter festival.

πασχάλιον. The cycle of moveable feasts.

πασχαλικός. One who observes Sunday devoutly.

πασχικός. A demoniac.

πατερήσσα, πατερίζα. A patriarch’s pastoral staff.

πατερικόν. A book of Lives of the Fathers.

*πάτερμας, τό. 1. The Our Father. 2. A rosary.

†πατρακούεσϑαι. To be heard by the Father.

πατριαρχεῖον. 1. The Cathedral of a Patriarch. 2. His palace.

πατριάρχης. 1. A Patriarch, strictly only used of the Bishop of Antioch, but commonly applied also to those of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, and Jerusalem. 2. A legate with extraordinary powers sent through the suffragan dioceses in time of important religious crises.

πατριαρχία. 1. A patriarchate. 2. The Generalship of a monastic order.

πατριαρχικός. Patriarchal.

πατροσύνη. Paternity, title of ecclesiastical dignitaries.

πέμπτη. Thursday. π. μεγάλη. Maundy Thursday. π. νέα. Thursday after Easter.

πενθέκτη. The Council in Trullo, A.D. 691, so called as complementary of the fifth and sixth General Councils. (Lat. Quinisextum.) Ἶ

πεντάστιχος. A collect consisting of five clauses or verses.

πεντηκοστάριον. An office -book containing the services from Easter Day to the octave of Whitsun Day.

πεντηκοστή. 1. The interval between Easter and Whitsuntide. 2. Whitsun Day.

πεντηκοστός. Psalm LI. Miserere mei. Usually marked as τὸ N

πέργουλα, πέργδυλον. A pulpit.

περιάπτης. One who wears an amulet or charm.

περίβολος. One of the four porches of a church.

περιεισερχόμενος. An official of the Great Church, having the charge of bearing in the fire’ needed for kindling incense &c.

περικεφαλαία. 1. The larger cap worn by monks. 2. The chrisom - veil.

περικοπή. A section or chapter of the Bible.

περιοδευτής. 1. A Visitor appointed by the Bishop. 2. An official charged with the instruction of schismatics who desire to be reconciled to the Church. 3. A title sometimes given to the Chorepiscopi. 4. An itinerant preacher.

περιπατεῖν. To go in procession.

περίπατος. 1. The state litter in which the Emperor was borne in procession to church on Palm Sunday. 2. The procession itself.

περιστερά. 1. A pyx in the shape of a dove, suspended above the altar. (Lat.- columba.) 2. A purple veil hanging from the cap of a secular priest.

περιστήϑιον. An oblong plate of jewelled gold or silver worn by Bishops on the breast over the Chasuble, in imitation of the High Priest’s breastplate. (Lat. pectorale’, rationale.)

περιτραχήλιον. See ἐπιτραχήλιον.

περίχυσϑαι. To receive baptism by affusion. (Lat. circumfundi.)

EGOS, πεσσός. A pillar supporting the arch of a church.

πετράχηλι. See ἐπιτραχήλιον.

πεῦσις. The appeal to the people to confirm the election of a Bishop. (Lat. interrogatio.)

πηδάλιον. (A rudder.) A book containing the Creeds and Canons of the General Councils &c.

πηλός, ἡ. Human nature.

πηνία. Tapers.

πιάνειν. To take, to ‘seize.

*πιλάτευμα. Tyranny, torture,

*πιλατεύω. To tyrannize, to torture.

*πιλάτης. A tyrant, a torturer. (qy? from Pilate.)

πίναξ. A penitential.

πινσος. See πεσός.

πίστις. 1. The Christian faith. 2. The Apostles’ Creed.

πιστόν. A proof of faith.

πιστός. A baptized Christian.

πίστοτος. Pious.

πλάγιος. Plagal, oblique. An epithet of four of the Ecclesiastical tones, viz. 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th Gregorian

πλήθη, τά. The laity.

πλήρωμα. 1. The Universal Principle (a Gnostic term.) 2. A full assembly.

πλουματίζειν. To scourge with a loaded whip.

πλουμάτον. A whip loaded with lead. (Lat. plumbatum.)

πνευματικός. A spiritual father, director, or confessor.

πνευματομάχοι. The Macedonian heretics.

πνευματορήτωρ. The preacher in a monastery.

ποδέα, τά. The curtains of an icon.

ποιεῖν. To celebrate the Holy Eucharist.

ποκάμησον. An under garment.

πολιτεία. Manner of life, conversation.

πολιτικά. Verses in accentual iambic tetrameter acatalectic.

πολυέλεος. 1. Psalms 135 and 136 said as one. 2. A lamp of seven lights hanging in the midst of a church. (qy. πολυέλαιον.)

πολυσταύριον. A vestment worn by prelates, with a pattern of crosses.

πόματα. Wavy stripes on the cope of a prelate.

πομπεύειν. To slander.

ποταμοί. See πόματα.

ποτῆρι, ποτήριον. A chalice. ᾿ π. κοινόν. A glass of wine given to a nuptial pair by the priest, and broken as soon as they have thrice drunk of it.

ποτηριοκάλυμμα. A chalice - veil.

πραγματικόν. An Imperial order in Council.

πραξαπόστολος. The Book of the Acts of the Apostles.

πρᾶξις. An act of a Council.

πρεσβεία. 1. Intercession. 2. An annual Litany formerly at the Blachernal palace.

πρεσβεύειν. To intercede. ᾽

πρεσβευτής. An intercessor.

πρεσβευτρία. An intercessor (feminine).

πρεσβυτέρα. 1. A priest’s wife. 2. The senior widows on the Canon. 3. A chief Deaconess.

πρεσβυτερεῖον. 1. Priestly rank. 2. An assembly of priests.

πρεσβυτέρισσα. See πρεσβυτέρα.

πρεσβύτερος. A priest.

πρεσβύτις. See πρεσβυτέρα.

πρεσπόχων. A crier (præco).

‘4 πριμμικήριος. The first of any rank, such as Readers, Singers &c.

προαναφορά. The earlier part of the Liturgy before the oblation.

προαναφορική. See προαναφορα.

προαύλιον. The porch of a church.

πρόβλησις. The Imperial ratification of the election of a Bishop.

προβαλή. The Procession of the Holy Spirit.

προγράφειν. To translate a festival.

προεδρία. 1. Precedency. 2. Episcopal rank.

προέδρος. 1. A president. 2. A Bishop.

προεόρϑιον. The vigil of a festival,

προεορτάζειν. To anticipate a festival.

προζυμίτης. One who celebrates with leavened bread.

προηγιασμένα, τά. Presanctified. Consecrated Eucharistic species used in the Liturgy at times when it is the rule not to say the Canon of consecration.

προηγούμενος. An ex-abbat.

πρόϑεσις. 1. The preparation of the elements for oblation. 2. The chapel where this takes place. 3. A credence -table.

προκείμενον. A short anthem sung before the Epistle.

πρόλογος. do. (In the Liturgy of S. Mark.)

προμήτωρ. Epithet of Eve and of S. Anne.

πρόναος. The narthex.

προοιμιακὸς ψαλμός. The Prefatory Psalm CIV. with which Vespers &c. commence.

πρόξιμος. An official of the Great Church having the direction of the bell -ringers.

προπάτωρ. 1. A Father of the Old Testament. 2. S. Joachim.

προσευχάδιον. A prayer-stool or bench.

προσευχή. 1. A prayer. 2. An oratory.

πρόσκλαυσις. The weepers, or lowest grade of penitents. (Lat. Flentes.)

προσκομιδή. The Offertory.

προσκομίζειν. To celebrate the Liturgy.

προσκύνημα. 1. A reverence. 2. An icon to which a reverence is made. ὃ, The chapel or niche containing such an icon. 4. π᾿ ἅγιον. A pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

προσκυνητήριον. A church or oratory.

προσκύνησις. See προσκύνημα.

προσκύρια, τά. The Gradual Psalms.

προσμονάριος. The resident verger of a church.

προσόμοια. Hymns of the same rhythm.

προσόμοια (στιχηρα). Verses of hymns which serve as the rhythmical model of subsequent ones.

προσοχή. Intent devotion.

προσφέρειν. 1. To make an offering. 2. esp. to celebrate the Liturgy. 3. To present a candidate for ordination.

προσφέρεμα, πρόσφερσις. An oblation,

πρόσφερσις. The presentation of a candidate for ordination.

προσφορά. 1. An oblation. 2. A Host, whether consecrated or not. 3. π. υψωμένη. The antidoron. 4. See πρόσφερσις.

προσφοράριος. The official who provides the Altar breads. (Lat. oblationarius.)

πρόσχημα. The dress of a novice.

προσφώνησις. An address by the Patriarch to the people. (Lat. allocutio.)

προὐποστολή. The front part of the vaulting of the apse.

προφητάναξ. Prophet-King. Epithet of David.

προφητεῖον. 1. A church dedicated to a prophet. 2. A citation from one of the prophetical books.

προφήτης. 1. A prophet. 2. A preacher. 3. A priest.

προφωνήσιμος. Epithet of Septuagesima Sunday, because public notice is then given of the Lenten fast.

προφώνησις. Public notice.

προχείρησις. Promotion to any ecclesiastical grade.

προχειρίζεσθαι. 1. (Mid.) To prepare a list of Candidates for Holy orders. 2. (Pass.) To be promoted to a higher grade.

πρωτέχδικος. The judge of all minor ecclesiastical causes in the Bishop’s court.

πρώτη. 1. The office of Prime. 2. A Prioress.

πρωτοαποστολάριος. The principal Reader.

πρωτύϑρονος. A Primate.

πρωτοκαϑεδρία. Primacy.

πρωτΌκλητος. Epithet of the Apostle S. Andrew.

πρωτοκορύφαιος. Epithet of SS. Peter and Paul.

πρωτομάρτυρ. Epithet of SS. Stephen and Thecla.

πρωτονοτάριος. The Patriarch’s principal secretary.

πρωτοπάπαδις. 1. The parish of a rural dean. 2. Any parish with subordinate chapelries.

πρωτοπαπαδίκιον. 1. Decanal rank. 2. A mother church.

πρωτοπαπᾶς. A dean.

πρῶτος. 1. Any person of prior rank. 2. An abbat. 3. A rector.

πρωτοσύγπελλος. The principal chaplain of a Patriarch.

πρωτοψαλτης. A precentor.

πτερόν. 1. A deed or charter. 2. The aisle of a church.

πτυᾶρι, πτύον. A wooden spade, with which the Priest throws earth on the coffin at a funeral.

πτωχεῖον. An alms -house.

πτωχοτροφεῖον. An alms-house.

πτωχοτρόφος. 1. The Warden of an almshouse. 2. The custodian of the Canon or list of church-poor.

πύλαι. See ϑύραι.

πυλωρός. A door-keeper, a minor church-official.

πυξίον. The pyx for the Presanctified species.

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Ῥαάβδος. A pastoral staff.

ῥαίκτωρ. An ecclesiastical dignity. Its nature seems doubtful. Perhaps it was a titular rank, akin to the modern Italian Prelatura.

ῥακενδύτης. A monk.

ἄκος. The threadbare garment of a monk.

ῥαντίζειν. To sprinkle with holy water.

*ῥασευχή. The benediction of the monastic habit.

*ῥασοφόρος. 1. A monk. 2. A novice.

ῥάσον. A monk’s frock.

ῥέκα. A scourge.

ῥεφερενδάριος A state messenger of the Patriarchal court, sent to the Emperor or other high Dignitaries.

ῥητόν. A citation from Holy Writ.

ῥήτωρ. 1. A preacher. 2. The interpreter of the Patriarchal court. 3. Epithet of S. Paul.

ῥιπίδιον. A fan, formerly made of feathers, and used to keep off flies, now of silver, and merely ornamental.

δουχάριος. The wardrobe-keeper of a convent.

ῥοῦχον. A cloth or garment.

Σ

Σάβανον. 1. A linen robe. *2. A shroud.

*σαβάνωμα. The act of shrouding.

*σαβανώνω. To shroud.

*σαβανωτής, σαβαρώτρα, σαβανωτρέα. One who prepares a corpse for burial.

σαββατοκυριακή. Saturday and Sunday together.

σάββατον. 1. Saturday. 2. The Jewish sabbath.

σάββατον τοῦ Λαζάρου. The eve of Palm Sunday.

σάγη, σαγηνή, σάγιν, σάγιον. A cloak. (Lat. sagum.)

σακέλλα, σακέλιον. A small bag or purse.

σακελλάριος. A treasurer. 1. σ. μέγας. A dignitary of the Patriarchal court who was Visitor of the monasteries of men. 2. σ. μικρός. The Visitor of parish churches and of nunneries.

σάκκος. 1. Sackcloth or haircloth. 2. A tight sleeveless vestment sometimes worn by Patriarchs and Metropolitans.

σαλός. Simple, foolish.

σαράδιον. A woollen cord tied round the feet of monks laid out for burial.

σαρακοστή. The Lent fast.

σαραντάρι. 1. Masses for the dead, celebrated for forty days. 2. A gift made to a church or convent in return for prayers.

σαραντήμερον. Advent, the forty days before Christmas.

*σαραντίασμα, σαραντισμός. Churching of women.

σέκρετον. 1. A private chamber attached to a church. 2. The sacristy.

σεμνεῖον. A monastery.

σεμνή. A nun.

σέμνιον. A monastery.

σεμνός. A monk.

σήκρητον. See σέκρετον.

σημαίνειν. To give the signal for worship, to ring the bells.

σημαντήρ. See σήμαντρον.

σημαντήριον. A hammer with which the semantrum is struck.

᾿ σήμαντρον. 1. signaller; a piece of wood, brass, or iron used instead of a bell in churches. 2. A churchbell. 3. A signature.

σημασία. The mystical meaning of anything.

σημειοφόρος. A worker of miracles.

σημείωσις. 1. The sealing of a document. 2. Any ratification.

σιδηροῦς. An iron semantrum.

σιλεντιάρης, σιλεντιάριος. A Privy - Councillor.

σιλέντιον. The Privy - Council.

σκαράμαγκον, σκαραμάγγιον. 1. A military cloak. †2. A large cope. (Lat. pluvialis.)

σκευοφυλάκιον. 1. The sacristy of a church. 2. An aumbry.

σκευοφύλαξ. The keeper of the Sacred vessels. σ. μέγας. A dignitary of the Patriarchal court, president of the Sacristy and guardian of vacant sees.

σκιάδιον. A cap.

σκουφία. The priest’s cap.

σκυλῆναι. To come to a person, to take trouble.

σκυλμός. Trouble, fatigue.

σολέα, σολέας, σολεῖον, σολία. The part of the raised level of the bema which projects beyond the screen into the choir.

σπεκουλάτωρ. An executioner. (Lat. speculator.)

σπήλαιον, σπηλάριον. A cell or hermitage in a cave.

στασίδια, τά. The stalls in a church.

στάσις. 1. A fast. 2. A pause in the recitation of the Psalter. 3. A rank or grade. 4. A stall.

σταυροαναστάσιμα, τά. Hymns commemorative of the Cross and the Resurrection.

σταυρογάθανα. Crosses made of red and white ribbons, and attached for eight days to the dress of the newly baptized.

σταυροθεοτόκιον. A hymn commemorating the Blessed Virgin at the Cross. The Stabat Mater is a hymn of this kind.

σταυροπάτης. One who violates a written engagement.

σταυροπατία. Breach of faith, perjury.

σταυροπήγιον. The rite of fixing a Cross in token of direct Patriarchal jurisdiction. 2. A church or convent where a Cross has been so fixed, and exempt from diocesan jurisdiction.

σταυροπροσχύνησις. The office of the Cross on Quadragesima Sunday.

σταυρός. 1. The Cross. 2. A signature.

σταυροφανεία. 1. Feast of the Invention of the Cross. 2. A procession in which the Cross is borne.

σταυροφόροι. The six great dignitaries of the Great Church, who wore a cross on their caps. See ἐξωκαταάκοιλοι.

σταυροφύλαξ. The custodian of the True Cross at Jerusalem.

σταυρώνειν. 1. To crucify. 2. To make the sign of the Cross.

σταυρώσιμα, τά. Hymns in honour of the Cross.

σταυρώσιμος ἡμέρα. 1. Holy Cross Day. 2. Any day in Holy Week.

σταυρωτός. Cruciform.

στέμμα. The imperial crown.

στερέωμα. The firmament.

στεφανή. The tonsure.

στεφανίτης. An ecclesiastic.

στέφανος. The nuptial crown.

στεφανοῦν, στεφανοῦσθαι. To marry, to be wedded.

στεφάνωμα. A bridal.

στιχάριον. 1. An alb. 2. A tunicle worn by deacons, subdeacons and readers.

στιχηρὰ ἀπὸ στίχου. Verses following a system of στίζοι.

στιχηρόν. A short hymn or verse.

στιχηρός. Epithet of some poetical books of the O.T. viz., Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Canticles.

στιχολογεῖν. To chant the Psalms verse by verse.

στιχολογία. 1. The recitation of verses from the Psalms, or of hymns. 2. A system of στέχοι.

στίχος. A versicle from the Psalms, used as a key-note in a hymn, somewhat as the Western antiphon.

στοιχάριον. See στιχάριον.

στολη. 1. Vesture generally. 2. A vestment reaching to the feet, and worn by Bishops and Priests. Not the Western stole.

στολίζειν. To put the chrisom-robe on a person.

στουδεῖον. The Studium, or great monastery of CP.

στουδίτης. A monk of the Studium.

στυλίτης. A pillar-monk.

συγγνώμην αἰτεῖν. To take leave of a person.

σύγκελλος. 1. The private chaplain of a Patriarch, Bishop or Abbat, and usually his designated successor. 2. Any Metropolitan or Bishop. 3. A suffragan.

συγχώρησις. Absolution, indulgence.

συγχωρητιπός. Remissory.

συγχωροχάρτιον. A letter of absolution or indulgence.

συλλέγειν. To assemble for worship.

συλλειτουργικά, τά. The office proper to a Reader during the Liturgy.

συλλειτουργός. An assistant minister during the celebration of the Liturgy.

σύμβολον. 1. The Holy Eucharist. 2. A creed. 3. A bell.

συμπαϑεια. Pardon, absolution.

συμπαθεῖν. To pardon.

σύμψηφος. A Bishop -Elect.

συνάγειν. To assemble for worship, esp. at the Liturgy.

σύναξις. 1. An assembly for worship. 2. The Holy Communion. 3. A collect. 4. The joint commemoration of Saints, or the festival of one Saint considered as belonging to a class, as S. Gabriel, representing the other Archangels.-

συναξάριον. An abbreviated form of the Menologion, containing an account of the various festivals, read in’ the public office.

συνάπτειν. To say the offices of different hours together. (Lat. accumulare.)

συναπτή. 1. A collect, esp. the Ectene. 2. The Holy Communion.

συνείσακτοι. Concubines. (Lat. subintroducte.)

συνθήκη. Monastic profession.

σύνϑρονος. The stalls for the Bishops and clergy in the bema.

συνοδία. The companions of a Martyr.

συνοδικάριος. A Bishop delegated to a Council.

συνοδική, συνοδικόν. A synodical letter.

συνοδίτης. A member of a congregation of secular priests.

σύνοδος. An ecclesiastical Council.

σύνοψις. †A manual of prayers, extracted from the various office - books.

συντάσσεσθαι. 1. To attach one’s self to, to join. 2. To take leave of.

συντακτήριον. A bidding farewell.

συντελεία. The end of the world.

συντεκνία. Spiritual affinity.

συντέκνισσα. A fellow-sponsor. (O. Eng. Gossip.)

σύντεκνος. 1. A fellow-sponsor. 2. A groomsman.

συντυχάνειν. To converse with, to speak.

σύστασις. The fourth grade of penitents, allowed to be present at all services except the Liturgy. (Lat. consistentes.)

συστατικαὶ ἐπιστολαί. Letters commendatory. (Lat. formata.)

σφικτούριον. A seamless vestment.

σφραγίς. 1. A seal. 2. The sign of the Cross. 3. A Host stamped with the Cross. 4. A particle of the Host. 5. Benediction with the sign of the Cross. 6. Baptism. 7. Confirmation. 8. Tonsure. 9. Election, ordination. 10. A suffrage, or intreaty for the prayers of the Saints.

σφραγίζξειν. 1. To sign with the Cross. 2. To ordain.

σχεδαριον. 1. A deed or schedule. 2. A deed-box.

σχέσις, σχετική. The illative honour paid to images.

σχῆμα. 1. Any state, condition, or habit. 2. esp. an ecclesiastical grade. 3. The monastic dress, distinguished as μικρὸν and μέγα.

σχηματολόγιον. The office for conferring the monastic habit.

σωλέας ἄς. See σολέα.

σωματεῖον. A corporate body, a college.

Τ

Τακτικά. Rituals.

ταξεώτης. An apparitor.

ταξιάρχης. 1. The Censor of a monastery. 2. Epithet of S. Michael the Archangel. 3. The founder of a religious order.

ταξίαρχος. See ταξιάργης N° 3.

τάξιμον. A row, a rank.

τάξις. 1. An ecclesiastical grade. 2. A monastic order. 3. The order of a ceremony. 4. A court. 5. A book of statutes or acts.

ταπεινότης. Humility. Title used by Patriarchs.

ταυρέα, ταυρία. A leathern scourge.

τεάφη, τεάφιν, τέαφον. Sulphur.

τέλειον (ἐλθεῖν ἐπὶ τό). To accomplish a penance, to be reconciled to the Church.

τελειοποιεῖν. To baptize.

τέλειος. A baptized Christian.

τελειοῦν. To die; esp. by martyrdom.

τελείωσις. 1. Perfection. 2. Baptism.

τέλεσμα. An enchantment.

τελετάρχης. A consecrator.

τελεταρχικός. Consecrating.

᾿τελώνιον. An evil spirit.

τέμπλον. 1. The bema. 2. The Order of Templars.

τέμπορες. The Ember-seasons.

τένας. The neck.

τεσσαρακονθήμερον. 1. The forty days of Lent. 2. The forty days before Christmas.

τεσσαρακοστα. 1. The fortieth day after death. 2. A service for the dead said on that day.

τεσσερακοστή. 1. Lent. 2. Any fast of more than a week’s duration.

τεσσαραντολειτούργημα. Masses said for forty days.

τεσσαρεσκαιδεκῖται. Those who celebrated Easter on the fourteenth day of the moon. (Lat. Quartodecimani.)

τετελεσμένα. See προηγιασμένα.

τετράβηλον. The curtain of the altar-canopy.

τετράδα, τετράς. Wednesday.

τετραδοπαρασκευή. The fast of Wednesday and Friday.

τετραπόδιον. A portable table in churches for exhibiting icons, or receiving fruits &c. for benediction.

τετραώδιον. A Canon of four Odes.

τετυπωμένη. A letter commendatory from a Bishop. (Lat. formata.)

τζάγγη, τζάγγιον. A buskin.

τξουίξα. Ordeal.

τιμάριον. Pay, stipend. (Lat. honorarium.)

τιμιοτης. Reverence; a title of respect.

τμῆμα. A section of Scripture.

τόμος. 1. The Minutes of a Council. 2. The decrees of a Council. 3. esp. those drawn up by S. Leo the Great against Eutyches. 4. The deed testifying the election of a Bishop.

τοποτηρητής. A vicar or deputy. (Lat. Locum tenens.)

τόσος, εἰς τὰς τόσας. At such a date.

τρακταΐζειν. To treat of, to manage.

τρακταϊσμός. A treatise.

τράπεζα. The nave of a church.

τράπεζα ἵερά. 1. The Altar. 2. The credence-table. 3. The act of communion.

τραπεζάρης. The Refectioner of a monastery.

τραπεζαρία. The Refectioner of a nunnery.

τραπεζιατικόν. Table -expenses.

τραπεζοφόρον. The outer altar-cloth.

τριαδικόν. A hymn in honour of the Holy Trinity.

τριγώνια, τά. A pattern of triangles formerly placed on the στιχαριον.

τριϑέκτη. The third and sixth Odes of a Canon sung at Matins.

τρικήριον. A candlestick with three branches.

τρίκογχος. A church with a triple apse.

τρίμορφον. An icon of the Saviour, standing between the Blessed Virgin and S. John Baptist.

τρισάγιον. The hymn beginning “Holy GOD, Holy and Mighty, Holy and Immortal, have mercy upon us.” It is not to be confounded with the Tersanctus.

τρισαγίου εὐχή. The prayer said secretly by the celebrant while the choir sings the Trisagion.

τρίτα. Office for the dead three days after the decease.

τρίφωτον. See τρικήριον.

τρίχινον. A haircloth robe worn by monks.

τριχοκουρία. Tonsure.

τρίψαλμος. 1. Any three psalms said together. 2. esp. Pss. 3, 6, 63.

τριώδιον. 1. A Canon of three Odes, sung in penitential seasons. 2. The office-book containing the services from Septuagesima to Easter.

τροπαιοφόρος. Epithet of S. George the Martyr.

τροπάριον. The generic name for a short hymn, so called from turning to the εἶρμός on which it is rhythmically modelled.

τροῦλλος (sometimes τροῦλλα). The dome of a church.

τρωκτὰ καὶ πότα. Offerings of food and wine made on Saints’ Days and at funerals.

τυμπανιαῖον. A corpse possessed by a vampire.

τυμπανίτης. One who has died excommunicate, so called from the belief that the body swelled and turned black, but would not become corrupted until the anathema was removed.

τυπικόν. 1. A book of rubrics. (Lat. ordinarium.) 2. A selection from the Psalter sung in certain offices. 3. An office said on certain Sundays in the Liturgy instead of the two first antiphons, and also at Sext or None at various seasons. The 103d and 146th Psalms always form part of it. See Neale. Introd. II. 941.

τύπος. A form or rite.

τυρίνη. The last week of cheese-eating before Lent; Quinquagesima.

τυροαπόϑεσις. do.

τυροφαγέη, τυροφάγος. Quinquagesima Sunday.

Υ

Ὑδροπαραστάται. Those who celebrated the Holy Eucharist with water. (Lat. Aquarii.)

υἱοϑεσία. Adoption.

υἱοθετεῖν. To adopt.

υἱότης. Title given to Bishops by the Pope. (Lat. Filiatio.)

ὕμνος. A hymn. ὕμν. ἀγγελικός. 1. The Tersanctus. 2. The Gloria in Excelsis. ὕμν. ἐπιλύχνιος. Psalm 141. ὕμν. ἐπινίκιος. The Tersanctus. ὥὕμν. ἑώϑινορ. The morning office. ὕμν. μυστικός. See χερουβικός. on. σεραφικόβΒ. The Tersanctus. ὕμν. χερουβικός. A hymn in the Liturgy immediately succeeding the Prayers for the Faithful, and before the Great Entrance.

ὑπακοή. Α variety of the sticheron, usually occurring in the office after Psalm CXIX.

ὑπαναγνωστικόν. A letter or document.

ὑὉπανδρεύειν. To give in marriage.

ὑπανδρία. Matrimony.

ὕπανδρος. A wife.

ὑπαντή, ὑπαπαντή. Candlemas Day.

ὑπεκκλησίων. The representative of the Emperor on public occasions.

ὑπερευλογημένη. 1. Pre-eminently blessed; Epithet of B. V. M. 2. A theotokion beginning with this word.

ὑπέρθεσις. An extra fast.

ὑπέρτιμος. Title of Metropolitans.

ὑπερῷον. The womens’ gallery in a church.

ὑπηρεσία. 1. A household. 2. A ministry in the Church, esp. of a subdeacon. 3. The church-vessels &c. (Lat. ministerium.)

ὑπηρέτης. A subdeacon.

ὑποβολεύς. Α succentor.

ὑπογονάτιον. See ἐπιγονάτιον.

ὑπογραμμὸν. An example.

ὑποδιακονικόν. The subdeacon’s place in Church.

ὑποδιάκονος. A subdeacon.

ὑποκαμίσιον. A species of cassock worn under the stoicharion or alb.

ὑπομανίκιον. See ἐπιμανίκιον.

ὑπομιμνήσκων. 1. The official charged with the receipt of all petitions and memorials addressed to the Patriarch. 2. A prompter, to assist the Patriarch if at fault in the recitation of the public office.

ὑπομνηματογράφος. The secretary of the College of Bishops.

ὑπομνηστικόν. A document. (Lat. Commonitorium.)

ὑπόπτωσις. The third grade of penitents, admitted into the lower part of the nave, but obliged to remain prostrate. (Lat. substrati.)

ὑποφωνητής. A succentor.

ὑποψήφιος, ὑπόψηφος. 1. A Bishop Elect. 2. A candidate for a bishopric.

ὑφάσματα, τά. †The four pieces of cloth, embroidered with the evangelistic symbols, placed on the corners of an Altar before the κατάσαρκα is put on.

ὕφος; τό. A copy of the Gospels.

ὕψωσις. 1. The elevation of the Host. 2. That of the παναγία. 3. Holy Cross Day.

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Φαινώλης, φαινώλιον. 1. A cloak worn by secular persons. 2. A chasuble.

φακεόλιον, φακεώλιον, φακεωλίς, φακιόλιον. 1. †A hood. 2. †The ἐπιτράχήλιον. 3. A turban.

φαντασία. 1. Any vision. 2. A bad dream. 3. Pomp.

φεγγεῖον. The nimbus or aureole round the head of a Saint.

φελόνιον, φελώνης. A chasuble.

φιάλη. A fountain attached to a Church.

φίβλα. A brooch or morse. (Lat. fibula.) 30. άου τον A church-goer, a devotee.

φιλοκαλεῖν. To cleanse, to adorn.

φιλοσοφεῖν. To adopt the monastic life.

φιλόσοφος. A monk.

*φιλότιμον. A present made at intervals by Bishops to the Patriarch.

φορεῖν, φορενεῖν. To vest.

φόρεμα. A vestment.

φουρνιτοῦριν. Leavened bread.

φραγκόφρων. A Roman Catholic.

φρεμενούριος. (Frère mineur.) A Franciscan.

φρέριος. 1. A friar, esp. a Franciscan. 2. A Templar or Hospitaller.

φροντιστήριον. A monastery.

φυλακῆς. A captive.

φυλακίτης. A captive.

φυλακτήριον. 1. A Jewish phylactery. 2. An amulet or charm.

φυλακτόν. 1. An amulet. 2. A reliquary worn round the neck.

φυλάσσειν. To observe a feast or fast.

φωνή. 1. A decree. 2. A musical tone.

φῶτα, τα. The Epiphany.

φωταγωγικά. Short hymns in honour of God as the Giver of Light.

φωταγωγός. A lamp.

φωταψία. The expenditure for lighting a church.

*φωτιατικά, τά. Fees paid to a priest at New Year and Easter for blessing a house with holy water.

φωτίζειν. To baptize.

φώτισμα, φωτισμός. Baptism,

φωτιστήριον. A baptistery.

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Χαμεύνη. A monk’s pallet.

χαμευνία. The act of sleeping on the ground, or on the χαμεύνη.

χάνειν. To destroy.

*χαντζῆς. A pilgrim to the Holy Sepulchre.

χαράδριον. The mattress or skin which formed a monk’s bed.

χαράτζιον. †The fee paid by a new Patriarch to the Sultan.

χαριστικάριος. A monk only partially supported by his convent. (Lat. Prœbendarius, oblatus.)

χαριστική. A prebend or donative.

χαρτουλάριος. A custodian of deeds. (Lat. chartularius.)

χαρτοφυλάκιον. A deed-box.

χαρτοφύλαξ. The Registrar of a Bishop and issuer of marriage licences.

χειμαζόμενοι. A class of penitents or energumens.

χειροϑεσία. 1. Benedictory imposition of hands. 2. Ordination to all grades below that of Deacon. 3. The episcopal benediction at Vespers.

χειρονομεῖν. To mark time, to conduct a choir.

χειροπιασϑείς. Taken in the act, red - hand.

χειροσήμαντρον. The hammer for the semantrum.

χειροτονία. 1. Election to an office. 2. Ordination, properly of Deacons and all higher grades.

χερνιβόξεστον. A ewer and basin.

χήρα. 1. A widow on the Canon. 2. A Deaconess.

χηρεῖον. An alms-house for widows.

χηρικόν. The order of widows.

†χοναυτήριον. A piscina below the altar.

χόνι, χόνιον. A piscina below the altar.

χόρος. A choir.

χοροστασίαι. The choir-stalls.

χρίσμα. The Holy Chrism, consecrated by Bishops only.

χριστιανέζειν. To profess Christianity.

χριστιανισμός. Christianity.

χριστιανός. 1. A Christian. 2. A catechumen. 3. One who has been confirmed.

χριστοφόρος. 1. An epithet of certain Saints, as S. Paul and S. Mary Magdalene. 2. A communicant.

χύμα. In monotone, without modulation.

χωρεπίσκοπος. A rural Bishop, of rank and power inferior to a Bishop.

χωρίζειν. To excommunicate.

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*Ψάλσιμον. The ecclesiastical chant.

ψαλτήρ, ψαλτήριον. The Psalter.

ψάλτης. A chorister or singer, a minor ecclesiastical grade.

*ψαλτικόν. See ψαλσιμον.

*ψαλτρία. A female chorister (in nunneries).

ψευδαββας. A false monk.

ψηφᾶς. A juggler.

ψηφηφορεῖον. The conclave in which a Patriarch is elected.

ψηφηφορικόν. The notice of election.

ψηφίζειν. To elect a Bishop.

ψηφίς. A stone for mosaic work.

ψήφισμα. Notice of the election of a Bishop.

ψιάϑιον. A mat of reeds, palm-leaves or papyrus, used by monks.

ψυχαγωγός. †Epithet of S. Michael the Archangel.

ψυχικόν, τό. Alms.

ψυχικὸν ἁμάρτημα. A mortal sin.

ψυχικός. Belonging to the soul; natural; the mid-term between σωματιχὸς ghd πνευματικός.

ψυχόπιττα. Bread given in alms to obtain prayers for the dead.

†ψυχοσάββατον. All Souls’ Saturday; the Vigil of Pentecost.

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Ὠιδή. A Hymn, a division of a Canon.

ὠμοφόριον. 1. A Bishop’s pall. 2. A large veil.

ὠράριον. The Deacon’s stole.

ὡρολόγιον. An office-book containing the Canonical Hours and portions of the festival services of the year &c.

ὡρολογόπουλον. An abridgement of the Horologion, answering to the Western Horæ Diurnæ.

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