Synonym: Lord's table, communion table. Similar words: poll tax, exultant, voltaire, consultant, consultation, simultaneously, salt, halt. Meaning: ['ɔːltə] 
n. 1. the table in Christian churches where communion is given 2. a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made.
n. 1. the table in Christian churches where communion is given 2. a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made. 
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91. Light streamed through a skylight and fell on the altar, where several robed monks distributed the Eucharist to the faithful.
92. It has a high altar with fine gilded carving and a sixteenth-century sculpture of Our Lady of the Rosary.
93. The men, members of the gay rights group Outrage, paraded placards in front of the altar before leaving peacefully.
94. She walked right up to the front of the altar and stood still beside Mike.
95. At Sinai blood is sprinkled on the altar and the people.
96. The High Altar, dated 1649, was the first example in Prague of this Baroque style.
97. Two men so different in appearance and manner, yet both prepared to sacrifice her feelings on the altar of their ambition.
98. Even so, he despised being made the goat on the altar.
99. The chapel is splendid with an early Baroque altar carved by A. Heidelberger.
100. She landed on the altar and spoke of her journey through heaven, hell, purgatory, and back.
101. I looked up then and saw the head of a wasp poking up from the top of a candle on the altar.
102. Hrun hummed a little tune as he began to pull crumbling leather from the desecrated altar.
103. Most impressive, though, was what was hanging from the ceiling directly above the altar stone.
104. The altar sits on a vast plain over which many battles have been fought.
105. She couldn't turn round so she fixed her eyes on her two brothers on the altar.
106. The Madonna presided over it all, high and serene above the altar, dressed in pale-blue silk embellished with golden embroidery.
107. The bride, wearing a floating off-white crepe dress and matching heels, marched to a makeshift altar where the groom waited.
108. Restoring the brush to the altar, the Reclusiarch lifted the sharp little knife and the chalice.
109. There was the altar, with its gilded borders and red sheen that absorbed the glazed white bowls and cups.
110. Others who were present held that the altar could be used again without any reconsecration, after a simple ceremony of reconciliation.
111. A larger block, perhaps an altar or sarcophagus, crouched in the centre with a strangely organic air of menace.
112. For those who liked to go to church there were padres of several denominations and candles and a camp-built altar.
113. All the pews have been removed from inside but the font and the altar rail remain.
114. There is also a beautiful altar rail decorated with ears of corn, grapes,[www.Sentencedict.com] etc. - all references to the Sacrament.
115. And before him, upon an altar table, flanked by sword bearers, stood a tall wild-eyed figure.
116. They sat on the second row of choir benches to the left of the altar.
117. Some one constructed a stone walkway leading to the cairn, as though it were an altar.
118. Eating flesh was unholy, and blood would stain an altar; only meal and grain were acceptable for food and sacrifice.
119. It is subordinate to the altar and although it may be decorative, it has direction towards the altar.
120. After this solemn function, the body was placed above a side altar in a crystal urn.
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