Definitions for diptychs

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diptychs dip·tych

Spelling: [dip-tik]

IPA: /ˈdɪp tɪk/

Diptychs is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in diptychs (cdhipsty).

Definitions for diptychs

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 diptychs

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 diptychs

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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