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Saltarello :: Saltarello (n.) A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella..

Gradino :: Gradino (n.) A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar. Cf. Superaltar, and Gradin..

Canopy :: Canopy (n.) Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc..

Introit :: Introit (n.) A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar..

Desolate :: Desolate (a.) Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars..

Orientation :: Orientation (n.) An aspect or fronting to the east; especially (Arch.), the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar toward which the congregation fronts in worship, will be on the east end..

Introit :: Introit (n.) A part of a psalm or other portion of Scripture read by the priest at Mass immediately after ascending to the altar.

Saltarella :: Saltarella (n.) See Saltarello.

Altarpiece :: Altarpiece (n.) The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o

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

Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (v. i.) To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice..

Veil :: Veil (n.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil..

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

Altar :: Altar (n.) In the Christian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; the communion table..

Priest :: Priest (n.) One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests..

Pace :: Pace (n.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall..

Heave Offering :: Heave offering () An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering..

Catabasion :: Catabasion (n.) A vault under altar of a Greek church.

Minister :: Minister (n.) One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments.

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