patener
(ˈpætənə(r))
[ad. L. patenārius, f. patena paten: see -er2.]
In the mediæval Church, An acolyte who held up the empty paten during a part of High Mass.
| [1439 Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 232 Uni subdiacono, uni thuribulario, uni patenario.] 1853 Rock Ch. of Fathers IV. xii. 194 This offertory-cloth was not as now cast about the shoulders of the ‘patener’..but folded round the paten itself. 1897 J. T. Micklethwaite Ornam. of Rubric 35 The patener or third minister when he brought in the chalice and when he held up the paten. |