Definitions for diptych

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diptych dip·tych

Spelling: [dip-tik]

IPA: /ˈdɪp tɪk/

Diptych is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in diptych (cdhipty).

Definitions for diptych

noun

1. a hinged two-leaved tablet used in ancient times for writing on with a stylus.
2. Usually, diptychs. a similar tablet of wood or metal containing on one leaf the names of those among the living, and on the other those among the dead, for whom prayers and Masses are said. the lists of such persons. the intercession in the course of which these names were introduced.
3. a pair of pictures or carvings on two panels, usually hinged together.

Origin of diptych

1615-25; Late Latin diptycha writing tablet with two leaves Greek díptycha, neuter plural of díptychos folded together, equivalent to di- di-¹ + -ptychos, ve

Examples for diptych

The names thus written were read from 309 the ambo, in which the diptych was kept.

Far other was the impulse that led Kiyonaga to his diptych and triptych compositions.

A diptych which belongs to the same shrine may also be mentioned.

Then he paired the pictures of past and present in diptych form.

In the diptych, although the portrait of Richard himself was a likeness, the setting was imaginary and symbolic.

The illustration given here is from the diptych of the Consul Areobrudus, and belongs to the year 506 (Fig. 73).

"Quickening" introduces the second room of the exhibit and features a diptych of pregnant women, their faces also ravaged by time.

A codex of two leaves was called a diptych; of three, a triptych, etc.

By various councils it was ordained that the name of the pope should always be inserted in the diptych list.

After all, a saint of old was glad that his name should be enrolled in the diptych of his Church, and remembered in her prayers.