Vocabulary Word
Word: lectern
Definition: reading desk or stand for a public speaker
Definition: reading desk or stand for a public speaker
Sentences Containing 'lectern'
It became the lectern microphone of the White House Communications Agency in 1965, the year of its introduction and remains so.
The church choir is the oldest part of the church, and the lectern is the only preserved example of its kind in Scandinavia.
For decades the chapel featured a small wooden altar, a pulpit, a lectern, wooden pews, tile floors, a Wick's organ, and three art glass windows behind the altar.
The main artwork is the marble ambo, a combined pulpit and lectern, of 1229, a masterpiece of medieval Apulian stonecarving.
An oak lectern was donated as a memorial to another local family.
The revolving lectern dates from the 18th century, and is probably Italian.
The other speaker's stand, usually on the right (as viewed by the congregation), is known as the lectern.
The word "lectern" comes from the Latin word "lectus", past participle of legere, meaning "to read", because the lectern primarily functions as a reading stand.
Because the epistle lesson is usually read from the lectern, the lectern side of the church is sometimes called the "epistle side".
In other churches, the lectern, from which the Epistle is read, is located to the congregation's left and the pulpit, from which the sermon is delivered, is located on the right (the Gospel being read from either the center of the chancel or in front of the altar).
Despite its name, this structure more closely resembles a lectern than the ambon of the Eastern Rites.
In churches where there is only one speaker's stand in the center of the front of the church, it serves the functions of both lectern and pulpit and is properly called the ambon or ambo.
The Carrara marble was then used to create an altar, a lectern, and a presider's chair.
The Gwydir Chapel contains 17th-century fittings and fixtures, including stalls, a lectern and a communion table.