Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Superior or upper, as a fissure of the frontal lobe of the brain: specifying one of the anterior lateral fissures: distinguished from subfrontal.
  • noun Eccles.: A dossal.
  • noun The covering of the mensa, or top of the altar. It overhangs the upper part of the frontal. See frontal, 5 .

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Eccl.) A cloth which is placed over the top of an altar, and often hangs down a few inches over the frontal.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A cloth placed over the top of an altar, often hanging down a few inches over the frontal.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ frontal

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Examples

  • The superior frontal gyrus (gyrus frontalis superior; superfrontal gyre) is situated above the superior frontal sulcus and is continued on to the medial surface of the hemisphere.

    IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon 1918

  • As soon as these regulations were broken and candlestick, cross, and superfrontal found a place upon the altar. this change necessarily exerted a strong influence upon the manufacture and decoration of the articles mentioned.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

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