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See also:SCREEN (usually, but very doubtfully, connected with See also:Lat. scrinium, a See also:box for holding books, from scribere, to write; a connexion with Ger. Schranke, barrier, has been suggested) , in See also:architecture, any construction subdividing one See also:part of a See also:building from another—as a See also:choir, See also:chantry, See also:chapel, &c. The earliest screens are the See also:low See also:marble podia, shutting off the See also:chorus cantantium in the See also:Roman basilicas, and the perforated See also:cancelli enclosing the See also:bema, See also:altar, and seats of the bishops and presbyters. The See also:chief screens 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 are those which enclose the choir or the See also:place where the See also:breviary services are recited. This is done on the See also:continent of See also:Europe, not only by doors and screen-See also:work, but also, when these are of open work, by curtains, the laity having no part in these services. In See also:England screens were of two kinds: one of open woodwork; the other, massive enclosures of stonework enriched with niches, See also:tabernacles, canopies, pinnacles, statues, crestings, &c., as at See also:Canterbury, See also:York, See also:Gloucester, and many other places both in England and abroad (see See also:RooD and See also:JuBE).
As an See also:article of See also:furniture, the screen is an ornamental See also:frame, usually of See also:wood, but sometimes of See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal, for See also:protection from observation, See also:draught, or the See also:heat of a See also:fire. Screens are made of all shapes and sizes, and may consist of See also:leather, See also:paper or textile materials fastened to the framework; they may have several leaves or only one—thus a fourfold screen has four leaves. Fire-screens are usually small, with a single See also:leaf—indeed in the Georgian See also:period of See also:English furniture they often took the See also:form of a circular, See also:oval, See also:heart-shaped or oblong piece of framed See also:embroidery fixed to a wooden See also:pole or upright, upon which they could be raised or lowered. This variety, which was called a pole-screen, was more effective as an See also:ornament than as a protection. The See also:hand-screen was See also:light and portable, as the name implies. At the See also:present See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time fire-screens are often of See also:glass set in metal frames. The larger type of screen, with several leaves, is of uncertain origin, but probably first came into use towards the end of the 16th See also:century. The earlier examples were of stamped or painted See also:Spanish leather or of some See also:rich stuff such as See also:tapestry; at a later date See also:lacquer was extensively used. They were tall enough to conceal the See also:person sitting behind them, and were frequently exceedingly handsome and stately.
End of Article: 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)
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