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‖ prothesis|ˈprɒθɪsɪs|
[a. Gr. πρόθεσις a placing before or in public, as in the phrase οἱ ἄρτοι τῆς προθέσεως the showbread (LXX and N.T.), f. pro-2 2 + θέσις placing: cf. προτιθέναι to place before, set out (food, etc.).]
1. Eccl. The placing of the elements, etc., in readiness for use in the eucharistic office; hence, the table upon which these are placed, a credence-table, or the part of a church where this stands.
In the Greek Church, the preparation and preliminary oblation of the elements, performed by the priest and deacon (more fully office of prothesis); hence, the table upon which this is done (table or altar of prothesis), or the place where this table stands (chapel of prothesis).
1672Cave Prim. Chr. i. vi. (1673) 140 The Prothesis, or place where things were prepared in order to the Sacrament. 1711Hickes Two Treat. Chr. Priesth. (1847) I. 322 The use of a Prothesis, or another table from whence he may fetch them [bread and wine]. 1883A. Beresford-Hope Worship & Ord. 92 We have the Altar with its attendant table of Prothesis.
2. (See quots.)
1812–29Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 93, [c blue]I would thus class the pentad of operative Christianity:—[/c]
Prothesis, Christ, the Word.
Thesis,Antithesis,
Mesothesis, the Holy Spirit.
the Scriptures.the Church.
Synthesis, the Preacher.
1830Ibid. IV. 429 note, As a synthesis is a unity that results from the union of two things, so a prothesis is a primary unity that gives itself forth into two things.
3. Gram. The addition of a letter or syllable at the beginning of a word: commonly, but less etymologically, called prosthesis.
1870March Ags. Gram. §48. 31 Real prothesis is pretty common in Greek. 1968P. M. Postal Aspects Phonol. Theory vii. 144 The Prothesis rule is that which inserts an [i] in the front of verbs containing less than one vowel. 1976Language LII. 307 Evidence for prothesis in Spain dates from the Vulgar Latin of the 2nd century.
¶4. Surg. Erron. used for prosthesis 2.
1842Dunglison Med. Lex., Prothesis [ed. 1857 adds Prosthesis], that part of surgery, whose object is to add to the human body some artificial part, in place of one that may be wanting. |