Diptych Sentence Examples
His early diptych High Life / Low Life (1829) typifies the contrast between Scotland and England as one of character.
An ivory diptych dial made in Nuremberg by Johann Gebhart in 1556.
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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