MEANING
A shallow plate used to hold bread in a Christian Eucharistic service.
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- silver paten
- altar paten
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The silver paten rested beside the covered chalice.
He lifted the altar paten with both hands.
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- paten
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular paten; plural patens. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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