Crossword-Solution: CANCELLI
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cancelli | v. t. | An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window. |
| Cancelli | v. t. | The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities. |
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| Lattice | 32 answers |
| Church part | 55 answers |
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Sentences with CANCELLI (5)
Proceeding eastward we enter the chancel, so called because it is inclosed with _cancelli_, or the lattice-work of the screen.
Study this rather, that you may receive praise and promotion at our hands, and go forth, with Divine help, on this Indiction, to such and such a Province, adorned with the pomp of the Cancelli, and girt about with a certain proud gravity.
Above these was the lettered staff, beginning with the humble chancellor _(Cancellarius),_ who sat by the _cancelli_ (latticework), at the bottom of the Court (to prevent importunate suitors from venturing too far), and rising to the dignified _Princeps or Cornicularius,_ who was looked upon as equal in rank to a Count, and who expected to make an income of not less than £600 a year, equivalent to two or three times that amount in our day.
The belief was that in the reign of Nero, the Apostles Peter and Paul took refuge in the hut of an old couple named Cancelli, near Foligno, and, as a proof of gratitude, gave to the male descendants of the family living near the spot the power of curing rheumatic disorders to the end of time.
The ordinary screen or _cancelli_, from which is derived our word "chancel" for the space thus enclosed, was a low wall.