What does altar-stone mean?
Altar-stone means Alternative form of altar stone..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative form of altar stone..
Neither the altar-stone nor the relics possessed any pecuniary value, but the plaintiff claimed that they were comprised in the demise of the mansion, and ought to have been delivered up to him on the termination of the tenancy with the other demised premises.
As we have already noted in the second paragraph of the present chapter, the altar-stone from Mallia is inscribed with 15 hieroglyphic signs and this inscription is written from bottom to top and left to right on account of the fact that the ductus of the signs points in this direction and that the entire combination is closed by the regular punctuation mark, a vertical line.
In answer to his prayers and entreaties, an altar-stone, which the blessed martyr used to carry about with him, has been given to his little sanctuary, and is now let into the altar of St. Joseph's Church, at Pickering.
Use altar-stone when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Altar-stone means Alternative form of altar stone..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Neither the altar-stone nor the relics possessed any pecuniary value, but the plaintiff claimed that they were comprised in the demise of the mansion, and ought to have been delivered up to him on the termination of the tenancy with the other demised premises.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.