Antimins is an English word. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Antimins in a sentence
Antimins meaning
A rectangular piece of linen or silk, usually decorated with religious emblems and inscriptions, and containing a small relic of a martyr.
Using Antimins
- The main meaning on this page is: A rectangular piece of linen or silk, usually decorated with religious emblems and inscriptions, and containing a small relic of a martyr.
Context around Antimins
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Antimins
- In this selection, "antimins" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, signed stand out and add context to how "antimins" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and an antimins he may and officially signed antimins and multiple. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "antimins" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with antimins
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The antimins is a silk cloth, signed by the appropriate diocesan bishop, upon which the sanctification of the holy gifts takes place during each Divine Liturgy. (26 words)
A bishop bestows faculties (permission to minister within his diocese ) giving a priest chrism and an antimins ; he may withdraw faculties and demand the return of these items. (28 words)
This means that most parishes or congregations, unless they have more than one officially signed antimins and multiple priests, can celebrate only one Eucharist per day, in order to express the catholicity of the church by avoiding "private masses". (39 words)
This means that most parishes or congregations, unless they have more than one officially signed antimins and multiple priests, can celebrate only one Eucharist per day, in order to express the catholicity of the church by avoiding "private masses". (39 words)
A bishop bestows faculties (permission to minister within his diocese ) giving a priest chrism and an antimins ; he may withdraw faculties and demand the return of these items. (28 words)
The antimins is a silk cloth, signed by the appropriate diocesan bishop, upon which the sanctification of the holy gifts takes place during each Divine Liturgy. (26 words)
Example sentences (3)
A bishop bestows faculties (permission to minister within his diocese ) giving a priest chrism and an antimins ; he may withdraw faculties and demand the return of these items.
The antimins is a silk cloth, signed by the appropriate diocesan bishop, upon which the sanctification of the holy gifts takes place during each Divine Liturgy.
This means that most parishes or congregations, unless they have more than one officially signed antimins and multiple priests, can celebrate only one Eucharist per day, in order to express the catholicity of the church by avoiding "private masses".