What does altar mean?
Altar means A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites..
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/ˈɒl.tə/ · noun
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.
[…]now marking the end of ascetic rationalism, the monadology no longer implied a sacrifice of individuality on the altar of rationality.
Use altar when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Altar means A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites..
Common synonyms include communion table.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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