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• REREDOS (Anglo-Fr. areredos, from arere, behind, and dos, back)

REREDOS (Anglo-Fr. areredos, from arere, behind, and dos, back)  , an ornamental See also:

• SCREEN (usually, but very doubtfully, connected with Lat. scrinium, a box for holding books, from scribere, to write; a connexion with Ger. Schranke, barrier, has been suggested)

screen of See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone or See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood built up, or forming a facing to the See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall behind an See also:

• ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar in a See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church . Reredoses are frequently decorated with representations of the See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

Passion, niches containing statues of See also:

• SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

saints, and the like . In See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England these were for the most See also:

• PART

part destroyed at the See also:

• REFORMATION
• REFORMATION, THE

Reformation or by the Puritans later; a few See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval examples, however, survive, e.g. at See also:

• CHRISTCHURCH

Christchurch, Hants . In some large cathedrals e.g . See also:

• WINCHESTER
• WINCHESTER, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

Winchester, See also:

• DURHAM
• DURHAM, JOHN GEORGE LAMBTON, 1ST EARL OF (1792–1840)

Durham, St Albans, the See also:

• REREDOS (Anglo-Fr. areredos, from arere, behind, and dos, back)

reredos is a See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of splendid See also:

• TABERNACLE
• TABERNACLE (Lat. tabernaculum, a hut, tent)

tabernacle See also:

• WORK

work, reaching nearly to the groining . In small churches the reredos is usually replaced by a See also:

• HANGING

hanging or See also:

• PARAMENT (Fr. parement, from Late Lat. paramentum, adornment, parare, to prepare, equip)

parament behind the altar, known as a See also:

• DOSSAL (dossel, dorsel or dosel; Fr. dos, back)

dossal or dorsal . (See also ALTAR.) For the legality of images on reredoses in the Church of England, see See also:

• IMAGE (Lat. imago, perhaps from the same root as imitari, copy, imitate)

IMAGE . The use of the word reredos for the See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron or See also:

• BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick back of an open See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire-See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place is all but obsolete . RESCHE1i SCHEIDECK . This Alpine pass is in some sort the See also:

• PENDANT (through Fr. from Lat. pendere, to hang)

pendant of the See also:

• BRENNER

Brenner Pass, but leads from the upper valley of the See also:

• INN

Inn or See also:

• ENGADINE (Ger. Engadin; Ital. Engadina; Ladin, Engiadina)

Engadine to the upper valley of the See also:

• ADIGE (Ger. Etsch, anc. Athesis)

Adige . It is but 4902 ft. in height . Near the See also:

• SUMMIT

summit is the See also:

• HAMLET

hamlet of Reschen, while some way below is the former See also:

• HOSPICE (Lat. hospitium, entertainment, hospitality, inn, hospes, host)

hospice of St Valentin auf der Haid, mentioned as See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as 1140 .

Starting from See also:

• LANDECK

Landeck, the See also:

• CARRIAGE

carriage road runs up the Inn valley to Pfunds, whence it mounts above- the See also:

• GORGE

gorge of FinstermUnz to the See also:

• VILLAGE

village of Nauders (274 m.) where the road from the Swiss Engadine falls in (532 M. from St See also:

• MORITZ, KARL PHILIPP (1757-1793)

Moritz) . Thence the road mounts gently to the pass, and then descends, with the See also:

• INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr. enfant, from Lat. infans, in, not, and fans, the present participle of fari, to speak)

infant Adige, to Mals (152 m.), whence the pass is sometimes wrongly named Malserheide . The road now descends the upper Adige valley, or Vintschgau, past See also:

• MERAN

Meran (374 m.) to See also:

• BOTZEN, or BOZEN (Ital. Bolzano)

Botzen (20 M. from Meran, or See also:

• IOO

ioo m. from Landeck) where the Brenner route is joined . (W . A . B .