"epistle side" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Traditionally, the Epistle is read from this side.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "epistle sides",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "epistle side (plural epistle sides)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Religion",
          "orig": "en:Religion",
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      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "english": "the left side, viewed from the nave",
          "word": "gospel side"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1848, anonymous author, The Rite of the Consecration of a Bishop in the Catholic Church:",
          "text": "the Consecrating Bishop washes his hands, and goes up to the Altar; and the newly consecrated goes to the Epistle side of the same Altar, and having there a Missal placed for him, he accompanies the Consecrating Bishop through the remaining part of the Mass.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The right side of an altar or church from the perspective of a person looking from the nave toward the chancel."
      ],
      "id": "en-epistle_side-en-noun-T5lMPw09",
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        [
          "religion",
          "religion"
        ],
        [
          "right",
          "right"
        ],
        [
          "altar",
          "altar"
        ],
        [
          "church",
          "church"
        ],
        [
          "nave",
          "nave"
        ],
        [
          "chancel",
          "chancel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(religion) The right side of an altar or church from the perspective of a person looking from the nave toward the chancel."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Epistle side"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "epistle side"
}

{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "english": "the left side, viewed from the nave",
      "word": "gospel side"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Traditionally, the Epistle is read from this side.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "epistle sides",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "epistle side (plural epistle sides)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Religion"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1848, anonymous author, The Rite of the Consecration of a Bishop in the Catholic Church:",
          "text": "the Consecrating Bishop washes his hands, and goes up to the Altar; and the newly consecrated goes to the Epistle side of the same Altar, and having there a Missal placed for him, he accompanies the Consecrating Bishop through the remaining part of the Mass.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The right side of an altar or church from the perspective of a person looking from the nave toward the chancel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "religion",
          "religion"
        ],
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          "right",
          "right"
        ],
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          "altar",
          "altar"
        ],
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          "church",
          "church"
        ],
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          "nave",
          "nave"
        ],
        [
          "chancel",
          "chancel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(religion) The right side of an altar or church from the perspective of a person looking from the nave toward the chancel."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Epistle side"
    }
  ],
  "word": "epistle side"
}