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Definition of Collection plate
1. Noun. A shallow receptacle for collection in church.
Definition of Collection plate
1. Noun. A plate or other container passed among the worshipers attending a Christian church service, into which donations of money are placed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collection Plate
Literary usage of Collection plate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paraguay on Shannon: The Price of a Political Priesthood ; Remarks on Policy by Frank Hugh O'Donnell (1908)
"... MAGISTRATES THE PUBLICAN'S TILL AND THE collection plate — SIR H. PLUNKETT'S
REMOVAL. A MOST potent cause of the waste, the drinking habits, ..."
2. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1873)
"For an example of this characteristic decoration, see the mummies in the Upper
Egyptian Saloon, British Museum. f Belmore Collection, plate 8. ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"After listening to the missionary's plea for half an hour Mark decided that he
would give a dollar to the cause when the collection plate came around—but ..."
4. Studies in East Christian and Roman Art by Falter Dennison, Charles Rufus Morey, Charles Lang Freer (1918)
"MORGAN COLLECTION. PLATE XL I Each of the earrings has a plain ring (about 0.025 m.
in ... COLLECTION. PLATE XLII BURNS In these earrings (length, 0.121 m. ..."
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