epistle side

American  

noun

1. the right side of a church, facing the altar.

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Etymology

Origin of epistle side

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Enthroned on the epistle side of the altar, the swart Apostolic Delegate looked cool and content.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a chasuble of blue and gold, the church's Pastor Arthur Carl Piepkorn stood at the epistle side of the altar.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is a creole of this country, and is ordained as reader on the epistle side.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

The celebrant, standing on the epistle side of the altar, was reciting in a low voice: "Nolumus autem vos ignorare fratres de dormientibus, ut non contrisemimi, sicut et cæteri qui spem non habent."

From A Mummer's Tale by Roche, Charles E.