Epimanikion
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Epimanikion is a noun meaning A cuff worn over the sticharion by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to a maniple in other Catholic churches.
Meaning
A cuff worn over the sticharion by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to a maniple in other Catholic churches.
Example Sentences
The cuffs, or epimanikia, which fit over the sticharion, bear little or no resemblance to the maniple.
Epimanikia (singular epimanikion) are liturgical vestments. They are fabric cuffs, usually brocade, that lace onto the wrists of a bishop, priest, […]
a little band of marchers displays Greek Orthodox outfits, the rhason and sticharion, the epitrachelion and the epimanikia, the sakkos, the epigonation, the zone, the omophorion; they brandish icons and enkolpia, dikerotikera and dikanikion.
Word Forms
- epimanikia
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sticharion, epigonation, maniple, omophorion, subcinctorium, succinctorium.
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