DIPTYCHA. Diptychs; tablets of wood, metal, or other substance, used among the Romans for the purpose of writing, and folded like a book of two leaves. The diptychs of antiquity were especially employed for public registers. They were used in the Greek, and afterwards in the Roman, church; as registers of the names of those for whom supplication was to be made, and are ranked

1. The act of governing; Manngement; superintendence. Also the body of persons (called “directors”) who are charged with the management and administration of a corporation or institution.

or involved in the case, to be by them applied to the facts in evidence.