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Webster 1913 Edition

Lectern

Lec′tern

(lĕk′tŭrn)

,

Noun.

[Written also

lecturn

and

lettern

.]

[LL.

lectrinum

, fr.

lectrum

; cf. L.

legere

,

lectum

, to read.]

1.

A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read.

Fairholt.