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Definition of Altars
1. altar [n] - See also: altar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Altars
Literary usage of Altars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1893)
"Л'щ/uVr of altars in a Church.—There was m primitive times but one altar in a
... They have, however, and have b*d for several centuries, minor altars in ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1855)
"In all cases except this, wooden altars are only apologies for altars. The Pontificale
will not allow them to be consecrated ; and not all the elaborate ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The altars of the latest time are marked by eclecticism and by a striving ...
BIBLIOGRAPHY: On primitive altars, besides the works mentioned in the text, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"But in es the altars were placed against the east wall a, ... Few particulars
have cesac down to us regarding the construction of the wooden altars used by ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1826)
"Among the Greeks, the celestial gods had their altars raised considerably above the
... The altars appropriated to heroes, or demigods, were one step high. ..."
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