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[NL., Mary, apostles, martyrs, etc., the living and the dead, commemorating these cla es, and arranging the portions in a prescribed manner on the disk (paten). Incense is then offered, the asterisk and veils placed over the elements, and the prayer of prothesis said. The elements are left in the chapel of prothesis till taken to the altar at the Great Entrance. (b) The table on which this preparation is made (the table or altar of prothesis). It answers to the Western credence table. (c) The apartment or the part of the bema or sanctuary in which this table is situated and the office used (the chapel of prothesis). See bema and the cut there given.-2. In gram., addition of one or more sounds or letters at the beginning of a word. Some Latin writers use this form for the Greek πρόσθεσις (see pros thesis) apparently through misapprehension, and some modern writers prefer it as more specific. 3. In surg., prosthesis. prothetic (pro-thet'ik), a. [ esis. Letters added prothetically . Trans . Amer . Philol . A ., XVI. App. p. xxxiii. prothonotarial (pro-thon-o-ta'ri-al), a. [