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n.
A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
n.
Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.
n.
A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on which different objects can be placed; a predella or gradino.
adv.
In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south.
n.
One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
n.
Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like.
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A cloth which is placed over the top of an altar, and often hangs down a few inches over the frontal.
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 of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.
n. pl.
Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service.
v. i.
To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.
n.
The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.
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.
n.
To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep.
n.
The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
n.
Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.
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A picture or altarpiece in three compartments.
n.
A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color.
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.
n.
The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes.
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The most sacred part of any religious building, esp. that part of a Christian church in which the altar is placed.
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