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Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.
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A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
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Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like.
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The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
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Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the Ural-Altaic, or Turanian, languages.
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Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.
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Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.
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Of, pertaining to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called also Altaic, Ural-Altaic, and Scythian), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages.
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An Asiatic burrowing rodent (Siphneus aspalax) resembling the mole rat. It is native of the Altai Mountains.
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A picture or altarpiece in three compartments.
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The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes.
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The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.
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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.
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In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south.
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A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.
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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.
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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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Alt. of Altaic
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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.
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To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.
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