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- noun Plural form of
patena .
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Examples
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Mark the Gnostic who poured white wine into his chalice and then after prayer showed the contents to be red, almost necessarily supposes a vessel of glass, and the glass patens (patenas vitreas) mentioned in the "Liber Pontificalis" under Zephyrinus (202-19) as well as certain passages in Tertullian and St. Jerome, entirely favour the same conclusion.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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'Most of these persons were still drunk, with the brandy they had swallowed out of chalices; -- eating mackerel on the patenas!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The _Lycanidæ_ [1], a particularly attractive group, abound near the enclosures of cultivated grounds, and amongst the low shrubs edging the patenas, flitting from flower to flower, inspecting each in turn, as if attracted by their beauty, in the full blaze of sun-light; and shunning exposure less sedulously than the other diurnals.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Bengal and the magnificent estuary of Trincomalie, there are open glades which diversify the forest scenery somewhat resembling the grassy patenas in the hills, but differing from them in the character of their soil and vegetation.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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The _Lycoenidoe_ [1], a particularly attractive group, abound near the enclosures of cultivated grounds, and amongst the low shrubs edging the patenas, flitting from flower to flower, inspecting each in turn, and as if attracted by their beauty, in the full blaze of sun-light; and shunning exposure less sedulously than the other diurnals.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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"Per suas patenas de patriotis," &c. The passage seems to him altogether corrupt.]
Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth James Endell Tyler 1820
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