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altar ['ɔltɚ]

n. 圣坛, 祭坛

He led Mary to the altar yesterday.
他昨天和玛丽结婚了。
The high priest sacrificed the goat on the altar.
大祭司把山羊献在祭坛上。
The pilgrims prostrated themselves before the altar.
朝圣者都匍伏在圣坛前.

altar

[ noun ]

the table in Christian churches where communion is given

<noun.artifact>

a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made

<noun.artifact>

Altar \Al"tar\, n. [OE. alter, auter, autier, fr. L. altare, pl.
altaria, altar, prob. fr. altus high: cf. OF. alter, autier,
F. autel. Cf. {Altitude}.]
1. A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of
stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense
burned to a deity.

Noah builded an altar unto the Lord. --Gen. viii.
20.

2. In the Christian church, a construction of stone, wood, or
other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist;
the communion table.

Note: Altar is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
a compound; as, altar bread or altar-bread.

{Altar cloth} or

{Altar-cloth}, the cover for an altar in a Christian church,
usually richly embroidered.

{Altar cushion}, a cushion laid upon the altar in a Christian
church to support the service book.

{Altar frontal}. See {Frontal}.

{Altar rail}, the railing in front of the altar or communion
table.

{Altar screen}, a wall or partition built behind an altar to
protect it from approach in the rear.

{Altar tomb}, a tomb resembling an altar in shape, etc.

{Family altar}, place of family devotions.

{To lead (as a bride) to the altar}, to marry; -- said of a
woman.

First a brass choir proceeded from the main door of the church down the nave, through the roodscreen, to the altar, its solemn fanfare reechoing in the shadowy air.
Peruvian President-elect Alberto Fujimori knelt before his family's Buddhist altar Wednesday during a pilgrimage to his ancestral home that has brought promises of aid for his debt-ridden country.
"I didn't see anything, but some of the other priests on the altar did," Joe Richard, a deacon of the Lubbock parish.
A six-foot crucifix hung on a wall behind an altar.
Some think they came from an altar made for Henry of Blois, bishop of Winchester and brother of King Stephen of England.
Thousands of people have visited the church to see the crucifix, which is 15 feet above the altar.
Most worrying is that prudent fiscal policy could be sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.
Not surprisingly, Brother Raphael Willeke continues to oversee the making of altar wines, of which Christian Brothers sells about 80,000 cases a year.
But lately the cow has come down from the altar to show up in most unlikely places.
He said they destroyed the altar where he said Mass for workers.
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, the alluring honey-blonde whose feisty nature and eight trips to the altar command more attention than her occasional movie career, is taking on the Beverly Hills police force.
Witnesses said four or five agents wrestled with the demonstrator, who came within 10 yards of the pope, and pulled him away from a security barrier around the altar.
An American pauses to admire a typical store-front altar, and within seconds an older Malaysian man hobbles up and begins explaining local customs.
The share of first pregnancies beginning out of wedlock has risen sharply in the 1980s and single pregnant women are no longer rushing to the altar, a new Census Bureau study shows.
Last Friday an advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration decided to sacrifice thousands of American lives on an altar of pedantry.
The Irish sometimes had a little altar on the mantle, and a bottle of holy water kept in a special drawer.
After the beatification, a dozen barefoot girls and boys performed a dance beside the altar.
In an interview published today, he cited unspecified "new complications." Peggy Say hung a bracelet engraved with her brother's name on a cross on the altar of the Greek Catholic church of St. Sergius, built 300 years after the death of Christ.
Firefighters had to smash a century-old stained glass window to ventilate the building, and the floor under the altar collapsed.
John Paul beatified the six in an open-air Mass in St. Peter's Square before a golden altar flanked by flowers and Swiss guards in gold, blue and red uniforms.
We want the priests." But when authorities would not relent, a makeshift altar made and the Mass was broadcast over loudspeakers to those inside.
Some couples race to get to the altar.
As if to emphasize the obvious, the Mets management on its triple-threat scoreboard welcomed New York Bank's foreign exchange traders and Our Lady of the Snow altar servers and wished happy birthday to Sarah Grossman.
You can't put a price on love and marriage, a judge has ruled in declaring invalid a matchmaker's contract that required a $250 bonus fee if her services led her clients to the altar.
Sometimes the altar is removed and flowers and fruit offerings placed on a cloth laid on the floor, African-style.
The bishop sweeps up the steps behind the makeshift altar table to a stone pedestal in the nave of the church, which except for this special occasion is now just a museum.
A eucharistic congress is a gathering of the faithful to foster devotion to the sacrament of the altar.
She slapped some bent playing cards together and banged them one at a time onto the altar.
Whether conflicts arise, he said, "depends on what vows you make at the altar."
Ms. St. John decided to go public when she became outraged over accusations that witches practice devil worship and black magic, or that they boil babies to obtain the fat for making altar candles.

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