Crossword clues for lectern
lectern
- Film serial killer next to new desk
- Reading stand
- Desk and other things turning up in possession of the French navy
- Talking point?
- Campaigner's stand
- Orator's spot
- Speaker's podium
- Speaker's desk
- Speaking point?
- Site of many addresses
- Professor's stand
- Prof's stand
- Prof prop
- Preacher's stand
- Place for speaking notes
- Place for a reader
- Orator's stand
- It might hold a Bible
- Church reading desk
- Bible stand
- Speaker's spot
- Stand in front of an audience
- Stand that a politician might take
- Stand that a speaker might take
- Something often read from
- Speaker's stand
- Address location
- Stand taken by one making a speech
- Desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer
- Sermonizer's desk
- Reading desk
- Auditorium feature
- Professor's station
- Grotesque character given name has support when speaking?
- Chosen to strip off, servicemen stand before the faithful
- Support for a speaker?
- Stand in church, left centre, roughly
- Stand at the front of church
- Speaker’s stand
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., lettorne, lettron, from Old French letron, from Medieval Latin lectrinum, from Late Latin lectrum "lectern," from root of Latin legere "to read" (see lecture (n.)). Half-re-Latinized in English in 15c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A stand with a slanted top used to support a bible from which passages are read during a church service. 2 A similar stand to support a lecturer's notes.
WordNet
n. desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer [syn: reading desk]
Wikipedia
A lectern (from the Latin lectus, past participle of legere, "to read") is a reading desk, with a slanted top, usually placed on a stand or affixed to some other form of support, on which documents or books are placed as support for reading aloud, as in a scripture reading, lecture, or sermon. To facilitate eye-contact and improve posture when facing an audience, lecterns may have adjustable height and slant. People generally use lecterns while standing.
In pre-modern usage, the word lectern was used to refer specifically to the "reading desk or stand ... from which the Scripture lessons (lectiones) ... are chanted or read." One 1905 dictionary states that "the term is properly applied only to the class mentioned [church book stands] as independent of the pulpit." By the 1920s, however, the term was being used in a broader sense, for example, in reference to a memorial service in Carnegie Hall, it was stated that "the lectern from which the speakers talked was enveloped in black."
Usage examples of "lectern".
Clio pushed her way forward enough to see Hocking approach a lectern that was just now rising from the floor.
A hooded chair occupied the center of the room, and beside it was a chest-high lectern whose face displayed a number of toggles and knurled wheels.
The chantor broke off his song and stared, and their Rebbe stood open-mouthed at his lectern.
She set the thali down on the raised wooden lectern, gently extinguishing the diyas.
He was a workmanlike but not a charismatic speaker, reading with level intonation from the autocue on the transparent lectern in front of him, and punching up the relevant slides at the relevant moments.
The prehensile feathertips touched one of the keys on the lectern, and a section of New Republic criminal law appeared on the display above his head.
He said something to the projectionist, who nodded and took over the task while Jao strode to the lectern.
I remembered the fatigued faces of a missionary and two priests, the books piled up on the lectern, the flames of the tallow candles by which the debaters traced texts in the heavy folios to back up their arguments, the flushed faces of the schismatists and the church conformists who met with much vociferation every sound objection to their views.
They needed a representative, the Institute needed exposure, and voila, Brandywine arrives at the lectern.
As soon as the last note died, the instructor rapped a pointer down on the lectern.
She rose from her chair and went to the lectern placed to catch the daylight from the embrasured window.
Nearby stood a writing desk with linenfold paneling, a lectern fashioned like a two-tiered tower on a baluster support, and an X-framed chair.
Ulath had dismissed his illusion, and when Itagne reapproached the lectern, the entire audience was huddled closely together near the front of the auditorium.
Once ensconced behind the lectern, Whiss surveyed the audience at length, preternatural tiger-eyes shifting slowly from face to face, sliding easily over some, elsewhere pausing long and significantly, to the indescribable discomfort of assorted victims.
Dale moved back to the defense table, and Ziegler moved to the lectern to resume her direct.