Diptych Sentence Examples

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  • His early diptych High Life / Low Life (1829) typifies the contrast between Scotland and England as one of character.

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  • An ivory diptych dial made in Nuremberg by Johann Gebhart in 1556.

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  • The uppermost stage was reserved for the deacon who sang the gospel (facing the congregation); for promulgating episcopal edicts; reciting the names inscribed on the diptychs (see Diptych); announcing fasts, vigils and feasts; reading ecclesiastical letters or acts of the martyrs celebrated on that day; announcing new miracles for popular edification, professions by new converts or recantations by heretics; and (for priests and deacons) preaching sermons, - bishops as a general rule preaching from their own throne.

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