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epistle side

noun

  1. the right side of a church, facing the altar.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of epistle side1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

To reach the seat reserved for her family for years, which was the first on the Epistle side, she had to pass near Jean.

In a chasuble of blue and gold, the church's Pastor Arthur Carl Piepkorn stood at the epistle side of the altar.

Enthroned on the epistle side of the altar, the swart Apostolic Delegate looked cool and content.

Diligent inquiry, without actual exhumation, resulted in the information that the remains of Christopher Columbus, enclosed first in a leaden casket and then in a massive coffin of stone, lay underneath the Gospel side of the sanctuary, and that those of his brother, Bartholomew Columbus, similarly enclosed, lay underneath the Epistle side.

This was contrary, in one respect, to the understanding of years before, which was that it was the body of Columbus's grandson Luis which lay under the Epistle side of the sanctuary.

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