| Paten 1. (n.) A plate. 2. (n.) The place on which the consecrated bread is placed in the Eucharist, or on which the host is placed during the Mass. It is usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover. Thesaurus Entries affusion, altar cloth, aspergation, aspersion, baldacchino, baldachin, baptism, baptismal font, baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration, baptistery, baptizement, cerecloth, chalice, chancel screen, chrism, chrismation, chrismatory, chrisom, christening, ciborium, corporal, cruet, extreme unction, fanon, font, holy-water font, immersion, infusion, jube, kneeling stool, last rites, monstrance, oblation cloth, ointment, ostensorium, paten, piscina, prayer rug, prie-dieu, pyx, reliquary, reredos, rood cloth, rood screen, sacrament cloth, sacramental anointment, sacred unction, sprinkling, stoup, total immersion, unction, viaticum |