noun. A work consisting of two painted or carved panels that are hinged together.

noun. An ancient writing tablet having two leaves hinged together.

noun. A list of names, originally contained on such a tablet, of living and dead Christians for whom special prayers are made during the liturgy in many eastern and western churches.

noun. A hinged two-leaved tablet of wood, ivory, or metal, with waxed inner surfaces, used by the Greeks and Romans for writing with the style.

noun. In the early church: The tablets on which were written the names of those who were to be especially commemorated at the celebration of the eucharist.

noun. The list of names so recorded.

noun. The intercessions in the course of which these names were introduced.

noun. In art, a pair of pictures or carvings on two panels hinged together.

noun. Anything consisting of two leaves.

noun. A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.

noun. A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See triptych.

noun. A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.

noun. A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.

noun. A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets, usually connected by hinges.

noun. A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church.

noun. A catalogue of saints.

noun. Artistically-wrought tablets distributed by consuls, etc. of the later Roman Empire to commemorate their tenure of office; hence transferred to a list of magistrates

noun. a. a literary work consisting of two contrasting parts (as a narrative telling the same story from two opposing points of view) "a diptych, a pastoral in which the author narrates the birth of Christ ... first as it has impressed the rich countryman Asveer, then as it has been seen by the skeptic Nicodemus" -- François Closset b. any work made up of two matching parts treating complementary or contrasting pictorial phases of one general topic "the first volume of a diptych Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert" -- F.E. Egler

noun. a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book)

"The term diptych is often restricted to a highly ornamented type of notebooks."

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Art  fine art  

`one'  bistre  carvers  chattin  chessman  

Domesday Book  abstract  abstraction  account book  address book  

triptych