FONT

(Lat. fons.) In Architecture and Sculpture, a ve el generally of stone or marble for containing the water of baptism in the Christian church. Some of the eariv fonts are extremely beautiful, and wrought with extra ord i nary richne of decoration. The singular inscription which is frequently found on the walls of baptisteries occurs nhn occasionally on ancient fonts — NIfON ANOMHMATA Mil MONAN OtlN; which reads equally forwards or backwards; admonishing the reader to cleanse himself from tism.evil deeds not le than use the outward ceremony of bapAtft [s. 477]