bema

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BE'MA, noun A chancel. [Not in use.] 1. In ancient Greece, a state or kind of pulpit, on which speakers stood when addressing an assembly. BEMAD'verb intransitive [be and mad.] to make mad. [Not in use.]
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