The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cancelli \Can*cel"li\, n. pl. [L., a lattice. See Cancel, v. t.]
An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window.
(Anat.) The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of cancellus English)
Usage examples of "cancelli".
Study this rather, that you may receive praise and promotion at our hands, and go forth, with Divine help, on this Indiction, to such and such a Province, adorned with the pomp of the Cancelli, and girt about with a certain proud gravity.
Never do you more truly discharge the functions of the Cancelli than when you open the prison doors to those who have been unjustly confined.