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American Church Dictionary
• Lectern
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Lectern
Webster Dictionary
• Lectern
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Lectern
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Antiphon-Lectern
• Lectern, or Lettern
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Lectern
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Lectern

The desk or stand from which the Scriptural Lessons in Church are read, and is so called from this fact. The term "lectern" is derived from the Latin word lecturni, meaning a pulpit or from the Greek lektron, a couch or rest for a book. Lecterns as used in our churches are sometimes constructed of wood or stone, but frequently of polished brass, in the form of an eagle with outstretched wings, (on which the Bible rests) to symbolize the flight of the Gospel message throughout the world.