The cathedral generally has a lectern from which the scripture is read.

The 15th-century oak lectern has a steep double rotating desk, supported on a square stem with four traceried buttresses surmounted by figures of the evangelists.

This is a gallant authorial gesture, as when a professor at Cornell, Nabokov had complained from the lectern of authors who ask readers to accept a character's gifts on faith: " The author has hinted already that Gurov focus of Chekhov's Lady with the Little Dog was witty in the company of women: and instead of having the reader take it for granted ( you know the old method of describing the talk as ' brilliant ' but giving no samples of the conversation ), Chekhov makes him joke in a really attractive, winning way.

The brass lectern in the Lady Chapel is from 1661 and has a moulded stand and foliate crest.

A profile of Rostenkowski in the July 1989 issue of National Journal said “ The chairman is a man of action, not words ; a doer, not a rhetorician ; one who thrives at the negotiating table, not the speaker ’ s lectern .... he has nourished an image as a legislative strategist that is perhaps unsurpassed on Capitol Hill.

Podium has also come to mean the object a speaker stands behind and sets papers or books upon even when it is at floor level, though the traditional term for that item is lectern.

The portrait on folio 3v has the lectern on Vergil's right on the chest on his left, which is reversed in the other two portraits.

A lectern in front of the ark has a square well a few inches below the main floor for the service leader to stand in.

The speaker ’ s lectern has been dated to the 1820 ′ s and may have been built for the Hall.

After being blessed by Cardinal Ratzinger, an English deacon of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, Paul Moss ( who has now been ordained priest and is currently serving as Vocations Director for the Archdiocese of Birmingham ), processed with the Book of the Gospels to the ambo or lectern.

Image: Origen3. jpg | Origen ; The dolphin-shaped lectern stem, still understood in Byzantine examples, has metamorphosed into a kind of dragon in northern Europe

The lectern usually has hollow dials on the south, east and west faces, and hour lines are inscribed in every available angle.

" He's creative, he has symphonies in his head ," Resto said at the lectern about Eminem.

Decorative furnishings were later added with the first organ being installed in 1882, commemorative wooden panels marking the First World War dead and a book of remembrance for those who lost their lives along with a lectern were added gradually and were primarily funded by alumni and the Hatfield Association.

The east window of the chancel and west window of the nave were added in the 15th century. The church was restored by Clapton Crabb Rolfe in 1896 ; he added the south porch, south window and north aisle The church's new reredos, altar tables, Rood and rood screen, pulpit, lectern and much new seating were carved for Rolfe by Harry Hems of Exeter.

The lake was dredged in the late eighteenth century and the lectern, thrown into the Abbey fishpond by the monks to save it during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, was discovered.

During this outburst of musical jubilation the congregation's candles are extinguished, the church lights are turned on, and bells rung while the church's decorative funnings — altar frontals, the reredos, lectern hangings, processional banners, statues and paintings — which had been stripped or covered during Holy Week, are ceremonially replaced and unveiled and flowers are placed on altars and elsewhere.

Additionally, Andy Richter, who remained behind a lectern during The Tonight Shows seven month run, now joins O ' Brien during celebrity interviews on the main set.

From Civil War deliver us .” Prior to the battle, some of the church valuables were hidden in the River Cherwell ; these included the brass eagle lectern, which was not recovered for fifty years, during which time it was damaged.

In a church, the lectern is usually the stand on which the Bible rests and from which the " lessons " ( reading from Scripture ) are read during the service.

The pulpit, the lectern and its Bible for readings during services, and the baptismal font, were not hurt by the fire.

The lectern is covered with an embroidered cloth covering the area on which the Torah scroll will rest during the parashah ( lection — see Torah reading ).

In 1805 Archdeacon Kaye gave the Minster the Newstead lectern ; once owned by Newstead Abbey, it had been thrown into the Abbey fishpond by the monks to save it during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, then later discovered when the lake was dredged.

" By the 1920s, however, the term was being used in a broader sense, for example, in reference to a memorial service in Carnegie Hall, it was stated that " the lectern from which the speakers talked was enveloped in black.

A fine brass eagle lectern given in memory of Charles Castle, died 1886.

* A piece of furniture suitable for holding papers used by a person who is addressing a group ; a lectern

Aspiring singers and rappers who appear on the show may even be granted a moment to showcase their talents from the lectern.

They gain the floor to make motions or speak by submitting a card to a computer attendant at the lectern who enters the request into a queue.

Jewel's works were published in a folio in 1609 under the direction of Bancroft, who ordered the Apology to be placed in churches, in some of which it may still be seen chained to the lectern ; other editions appeared at Oxford ( 1848, 8 vols ) and Cambridge ( Parker Soc., 4 vols ).

In any case, Beethoven was not to blame, as violinist Josef Böhm recalled: " Beethoven directed the piece himself ; that is, he stood before the lectern and gesticulated furiously.

* The pulpit, or amud, a lectern facing the Ark where the hazzan or prayer leader stands while praying.

After a group of students marched to the lectern, unfurling a banner that read " Berlin ’ s left-wing fascists greet Teddy the Classicist ," a number of those present left the lecture in protest after Adorno refused to abandon his talk in favor of discussing his attitude on the current political situation.

But at the first lecture Adorno's attempt to open up the lecture and invite questions whenever they arose degenerated into a disruption from which he quickly fled: after a student wrote on the blackboard " If Adorno is left in peace, capitalism will never cease ," three women students approached the lectern, bared their breasts and scattered flower petals over his head.

The chancel of United Methodist churches usually features a lectern and baptismal font on one side of the altar table and a pulpit on the other side.

In the long pauses, the only sound was his fingers drumming on the lectern.

When congregation members begin to nod off, Lovejoy can awaken them by pressing a button on the lectern which results in pre-recorded irritating noises.

DFL logo used on a lectern at the 2006 DFL state convention.

alt = A middle aged Caucasian man with dark hair speaks from a lectern.

The bronze lectern was given to the College in 1654.

An altar table was also recovered, although that is now in Ampleforth, and a stone lectern base from the chapter house is the only example its kind in Britain.

The celebrant sits at the sedile, in front of which is placed a lectern, covered with a cloth in the color of the day.

After the psalms, the acolytes relight their candles and carry them to each side of the lectern for the chapter.

The assistants follow, standing facing each other in front of the lectern.

If there are commemorations, the acolytes and assistants again go to the lectern as described above for the chapter.

At the front of the chamber, is the rostrum containing the green marble desk for the President of the General Assembly, Secretary-General and Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs and Conference Services and matching lectern for speakers.

This Paschal candle will be used throughout the season of Easter, remaining in the sanctuary of the Church or near the lectern, and throughout the coming year at baptisms and funerals, reminding all that that Christ is " light and life.

Confession does not take place in a confessional, but normally in the main part of the church itself, usually before an analogion ( lectern ) set up near the iconostasion.

The other speaker's stand, usually on the right ( as viewed by the congregation ), is known as the lectern.

The word lectern comes from the Latin word " lectus ", past participle of legere, meaning " to read ", because the lectern primarily functions as a reading stand.

Because the epistle lesson is usually read from the lectern, the lectern side of the church is sometimes called the epistle side.