Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of altar is as below...

Chantry :: Chantry (n.) A chapel or altar so endowed.

Frontal :: Frontal (n.) A movable, decorative member in metal, carved wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery, covering the front of the altar. Frontals are usually changed according to the different ceremonies..

Retable :: Retable (n.) A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc..

Mothering :: Mothering (n.) A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar..

Predella :: Predella (n.) The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece..

Vestal :: Vestal (a.) A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar..

Cruet :: Cruet (n.) A vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of the altar..

Footpace :: Footpace (n.) A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase..

Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation..

Tephramancy :: Tephramancy (n.) Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.

Altarist :: Altarist (n.) A vicar of a church.

Piscina :: Piscina (n.) A niche near the altar in a church, containing a small basin for rinsing altar vessels..

Frithstool :: Frithstool (n.) A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary..

Gospeler :: Gospeler (n.) A priest or deacon who reads the gospel at the altar during the communion service.

Horn :: Horn (n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.

Gradine :: Gradine (n.) Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another..

Aruspex :: Aruspex (n.) One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods..

Strait :: Strait (a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw..

Dorsal :: Dorsal (a.) A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position..

Sanctuary :: Sanctuary (n.) The most sacred part of any religious building, esp. that part of a Christian church in which the altar is placed..

Random Fonts

Most Popular