Dictionary - Definition of CANCELLI


Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window.[Websters] 2. The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.[Websters].
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.		Top

Date "Cancelli" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1584. (references)

Etymology:Cancelli \Can*cel"li\, plural noun. [Latin expression, lattice. See Cancel, transitive verb]. (references)

Specialty Definition: CANCELLI

Domain	Definition
Antiquities	Cancelli (kinklides, druphaktoi). A screen or lattice of open work, placed before a window, a doorway, the tribunal of a judge, or any other place. At Athens, in the Senate-house and lawcourts druphaktoi were the inner partition, and kinklides the gates opening into it. Balconies projecting from the fronts of houses were also druphaktoi (maeniana). The material was originally wood, as the name druphaktos shows (L. and S. s.v.); and such were also the cancelli put up at Rome for temporary purposes, as when funeral games were given in the Forum (cancelli fori, pro Sest. 58. 124; cf. Ov. Am. iii. 2, 64). But they might also be in metal, as in the cancelli before the Temple of Vesta, rebuilt by Severus, conjecturally restored by Lanciani from existing remains, or in marble. In the Basilica Iulia, low marble screens or cancelli shut in the otherwise open arches on the ground floor; and a great number of fragments of these screens are now scattered about the Forum. Hence was derived the word cancellarius, which originally signified a porter who stood at the latticed or grated door of the emperor's palace. The cancellarius also signified a legal scribe or secretary who sat within the cancelli, or latticework, by which the crowd was kept off from the tribunals of the judges (Cassiod. Var. xi. 6). The chief scribe or secretary was called cancellarius kat exochên, and was eventually invested with judicial power at Constantinople. From this word has come the modern “chancellor. ”. (references)
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Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window.[Websters] 2. The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities.[Websters].
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.		Top

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Date "CANCELLI" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1584. (references)

Etymology:Cancelli \Can*cel"li\, plural noun. [Latin expression, lattice. See Cancel, transitive verb]. (references)

Specialty Definition: CANCELLI

Domain	Definition
Antiquities	Cancelli (kinklides, druphaktoi). A screen or lattice of open work, placed before a window, a doorway, the tribunal of a judge, or any other place. At Athens, in the Senate-house and lawcourts druphaktoi were the inner partition, and kinklides the gates opening into it. Balconies projecting from the fronts of houses were also druphaktoi (maeniana). The material was originally wood, as the name druphaktos shows (L. and S. s.v.); and such were also the cancelli put up at Rome for temporary purposes, as when funeral games were given in the Forum (cancelli fori, pro Sest. 58. 124; cf. Ov. Am. iii. 2, 64). But they might also be in metal, as in the cancelli before the Temple of Vesta, rebuilt by Severus, conjecturally restored by Lanciani from existing remains, or in marble. In the Basilica Iulia, low marble screens or cancelli shut in the otherwise open arches on the ground floor; and a great number of fragments of these screens are now scattered about the Forum. Hence was derived the word cancellarius, which originally signified a porter who stood at the latticed or grated door of the emperor's palace. The cancellarius also signified a legal scribe or secretary who sat within the cancelli, or latticework, by which the crowd was kept off from the tribunals of the judges (Cassiod. Var. xi. 6). The chief scribe or secretary was called cancellarius kat exochên, and was eventually invested with judicial power at Constantinople. From this word has come the modern â€œchancellor. â€. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.		Top