oppando, pandi, pansum, or passum, 3, v. a. [ob-pando],
I to spread or stretch out against or before , to spread out (post-class.): aliquid ad flatus helices, Grat. Cyn. 55: cornibus oppansis et summā fronte coruscum (of the cross of Christ), Prud. Psych. 410: aulaei vice oppansā, Tert. Apol. 48 fin. ; Hier. Ep. ad Galat. 1, v. 11, 12; Vulg. Exod. 35, 12.
II —Hence, oppansum ( -passum ), i, n., a covering , envelope (eccl. Lat.): corporis, Tert. Anim. 53.