Noun: altar
| Singular | altar |
| Plural | altars |
Sample Sentences
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To hawke, or els to hunt
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From the auter to the funt,
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Wyth cry unreverent,
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Before the sacrament,
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Wythin the holy church bowndis,
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That of our fayth the grownd is. [c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 9–14:]
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Wax models of the pudenda of both sexes were regularly placed before the altar. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 228:]
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[…]now marking the end of ascetic rationalism, the monadology no longer implied a sacrifice of individuality on the altar of rationality. [2000, Alain Renaut, M. B. De Bevoise, “Hegel and Nietzsche”, in Era of the Individual: A Contribution to a History of Subjectivity, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 129, lines 19–25:]
Nouns inflected like altar
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English auter, inherited from Old English altar and borrowed from Old French auter, both derived from Latin altāre, probably related to adolere (“burn”); thus "burning place", influenced by altus (“high”). Displaced native Middle English wēved. See: Middle English Nouns '
auter', Middle English Nouns '
auter', Latin Nouns '
altāre'.
Verbs referencing "altar"
Danish Nouns
alter.