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galeate
adj.
5L galeatus, pp. of galeare, to cover with a helmet < galea, a helmet6
1 wearing a helmet
2 helmet-shaped
In human anatomy, the galea aponeurotica (tendinous plate on top of the skull) Wjich is
exposed by victi;m's being scalped.
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Flabellum???
C'mon, Dr. Bill. Yer puttin us on aincha?
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Dear Faldage: When you get elected Pope, I will flap your flabellum.
Habemusne Papam?
Flabellum
The flabellum, in liturgical use, is a fan made of leather, silk, parchment, or
feathers intended to keep away insects from the Sacred Species and from the
priest. It was in use in the sacrifices of the heathens and in the Christian Church
from very early days, for in the Apostolic Constitutions, a work of the fourth
century, we read (VIII, 12): "Let two of the deacons, on each side of the altar,
hold a fan, made up of thin membranes, or of the feathers of the peacock, or of
fine cloth, and let them silently drive away the small animals that fly about, that
they may not come near to the cups". Its use was continued in the Latin Church
to about the fourteenth century. In the Greek Church to the present day, the
deacon, at his ordination, receives the hagion ripidion, or sacred fan, which is
generally made to the likeness of a cherub's six-winged face, and in the sacrifice
of the Mass he waves it gently over the species from the time of the Offertory to
the Communion — in the Liturgy of St. Basil only during the Consecration.
Among the ornaments found belonging to the church of St. Riquier, in Ponthieu
(813), there is a silver flabellum (Migne, P. L., CLXXIV, 1257), and for the
chapel of Cisoin, near Lisle, another flabellum of silver is noted in the will of
Everard (died 937), the founder of that abbey. When, in 1777, Martène wrote his
"Voyage Littéraire", the Abbey of Tournus, on the Saône in France, possessed an
old flabellum, which had an ivory handle two feet long, and was beautifully
carved; the two sides of the ivory circular disc were engraved with fourteen
figures of saints. Pieces of this fan, dating from the eighth century, are in the
Musée Cluny at Paris, and in the Collection Carrand. The circular disc is also
found in the Slavic flabellum of the thirteenth century, preserved at Moscow, and
in the one shown in the Megaspileon monastery in Greece. On this latter disc are
carved the Madonna and Child and it is encircled by eight medallions containing
the images of cherubim and of the Four Evangelists. The inventory, taken in 1222,
of the treasury of Salisbury, enumerates a silver fan and two of parchment. The
richest and most beautiful specimen is the flabellum of the thirteenth century in
the Abbey of Kremsmünster in Upper Austria. It has the shape of a Greek cross
and is ornamented with fretwork and the representation of the Resurrection of
Our Lord. A kind of fan with a hoop of little bells is used by the Maronites and
other Orientals and is generally made of silver or brass.
Apart from the foregoing liturgical uses, a flabellum, in the shape of a fan, later of
an umbrella or canopy, was used as a mark of honour for bishops and princes.
Two fans of this kind are used at the Vatican whenever the pope is carried in
state on the sedia gestatoria to or from the altar or audience-chamber. Through
the influence of Count Ditalmo di Brozza, the fans formerly used at the Vatican
were, in 1902, presented to Mrs. Joseph Drexel of Philadelphia, U. S. A., by Leo
XIII, and in return she gave a new pair to the Vatican. The old ones are exhibited
in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania. They are splendid creations.
The spread is formed of great ostrich plumes tipped with peacock feathers; on the
sticks are the papal arms, worked in a crimson field in heavy gold, the crown
studded with rubies and emeralds. St. Paul's Cathedral, London, had a fan made
of peacock feathers, and York Cathedral's inventory mentions a silver handle of a
fan, which was gilded and had upon it the enamelled picture of the bishop.
Haymo, Bishop of Rochester (died 1352), gave to his church a fan of silver with
an ivory handle.
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I will flap your flabellum
You do and there'll be a nother Reformation so quick there won't be any flies within light-years of the Vatican.
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