altar

Definitions

1. A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites
2. A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
3. A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary
4. lead to the altar, to marry.
5. A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
   informal
6. Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to
7. An elevated place or structure before which religious ceremonies may be enacted or upon which sacrifices may be offered.
8. Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.
   figuratively
9. A structure, typically a table, before which the divine offices are recited and upon which the Eucharist is celebrated in Christian churches.
10. (Ecclesiastical Terms) a raised place or structure where sacrifices are offered and religious rites performed
11. (Ecclesiastical Terms) (in Christian churches) the communion table
12. (Civil Engineering) a step in the wall of a dry dock upon which structures supporting a vessel can stand
13. lead to the altar informal to marry
    informal
14. an elevated place or structure, as a mound or platform, at which religious rites are performed or on which sacrifices are offered to gods, ancestors, etc.
15. communion table.
16. A. N → altar mhigh altar → altar m mayorhe sacrificed all on the altar of his ambition → lo sacrificó todo en aras de su ambiciónto lead a girl to the altar → conducir a una chica al altar
    N

Equivalents

Examples

“To hawke, or els to hunt From the auter to the funt, Wyth cry⟳ unreverent, Before the sacrament, Wythin the holy church bowndis, That of our fayth the grownd is.”

“Wax models of the pudenda of both sexes were regularly placed before the altar.”

“[…]now marking the end⟳ of ascetic rationalism, the monadology no longer implied a sacrifice of individuality on the altar of rationality.”

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