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ambo1 n pl ambos, ambones [æmˈbəʊniːz] (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) either of two raised pulpits from which the gospels and epistles were read in early Christian churches [from Medieval Latin, from Greek ambōn raised rim, pulpit] ambo2 n pl ambos Austral informal
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He heard them and, as always at moments of temptation, he repeated the words, 'Lead us not into temptation,' and bowing his head and lowering his eyes went past the ambo and in by the north door, avoiding the canons in their cassocks who were just then passing the altar-screen. Such men are fitter for practice, than for counsel; and they are good, but in their own alley: turn them to new men, and they have lost their aim; so as the old rule, to know a fool from a wise man, Mitte ambos nudos ad ignotos, et videbis, doth scarce hold for them. |
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