Word Meanings - SUPERFRONTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A cloth which is placed over the top of an altar, and often hangs down a few inches over the frontal.
Related words: (words related to SUPERFRONTAL)
- PLACODERMATA
See PLACODERMI - ALTARAGE
1. The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church. 2. The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - PLACID
Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay. - ALTARIST
A chaplain. A vicar of a church. - PLACIT
A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn. - PLACOPHORA
A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura. - CLOTHESLINE
A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - PLACIDNESS
The quality or state of being placid. - PLACE
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe - PLACOIDIAN
One of the placoids. - OFTENNESS
Frequency. Hooker. - PLACABLENESS
The quality of being placable. - ALTARWISE
In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley. - PLACITORY
Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law. Clayton. - CLOTHESHORSE
A frame to hang clothes on. - SAILCLOTH
Duck or canvas used in making sails. - UNPLACABLE
Implacable. - BEDCLOTHES
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak. - HEARSECLOTH
A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - SALTARELLO
A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella. - NECKCLOTH
A piece of any fabric worn around the neck. - BROADCLOTH
A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide. - UNCLOTHED
Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym: - COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like