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/rˈɛdɪŋ dɛsk/ Listen

adjective

Reading adj.

Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.

Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.

Reading book, a book for teaching reading; a reader.

Reading desk, a desk to support a book while reading; esp., a desk used while reading the service in a church.

Reading glass, a large lens with more or less magnifying power, attached to a handle, and used in reading, etc.

Reading man, one who reads much; hence, in the English universities, a close, industrious student.

Reading room, a room appropriated to reading; a room provided with papers, periodicals, and the like, to which persons resort.

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Etymology of 'Reading desk'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reading desk" Quotes from Famous Books

... stand on each side of the raised portion of the floor which corresponds to the choir in the Basilica of Honorius. The Gospel was chanted from the one on the south side with the reading desk turned towards the choir; and the Epistle from the one on the north, with a single desk towards the high altar. Before the Gospel ambo is a fine mosaic candelabrum standing on a Roman cippus reversed, having an olive branch ...

— The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration - Vol 1, No. 9 1895 • Various

... humble rank in England, who only were ever asked in church, until the new-fangled systems of marriage came up within the last ten or fifteen years, during the currency of the three Sundays on which the banns were proclaimed by the clergyman from the reading desk, the young couple elect were said jocosely to Le "hanging in the bell-ropes;" alluding perhaps to the joyous peal contingent on the ...

— Biographical Essays • Thomas de Quincey

... a considerable time in what had been her father's study, having selected some of his favourite authors, to put up with her clothes, and shed many tears, as she wiped the dust from their covers, she seated herself in his chair before the reading desk, and sat lost in melancholy reflection, till Theresa opened the door to examine, as was her custom before she went to bed, if was all safe. She started, on observing her young lady, who bade her come in, and then gave her some directions for keeping the chateau in readiness ...

— The Mysteries of Udolpho • Ann Radcliffe

... a far heavier commodity than you would have cared to hold in your lap," smiled Mr. Cameron. "In fact, it was impossible to hold one of them; hence we find the old-time reading desk used as ...

— Paul and the Printing Press • Sara Ware Bassett