OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 6804

altar

/ˈɒl.tə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
altar • ara
A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
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.
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