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high altar
[OE. heah-altar.]
The principal altar of a church.
c950in T. Wright Vol. Vocab. (1873) II. 23 Cibborium, þæs heahalteres ofergeweorc. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 592 So harnayst as he was he herknez his masse, Offred and honoured at þe heȝe auter. c1460Oseney Reg. 137 Reynolde, By the grace of god Bisshop of Clone,..halowed the Chapell of Saunforde and the high auter. c1553in Diary of H. Machyn (1848) 399 The highe altar table. a1700Evelyn Diary 25 Oct. 1644, On the large high altar is a brazen vessel of admirable invention. c1777in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. VIII. 173 He lays buried in our Church at the foot of the High Altar. 1826[see altar 2]. 1894C. M. Church Chapters Early Hist. Ch. Wells App. W. 419 High altar dedicated to St. Andrew. 1927W. Cather Death comes for Archbishop ix. viii. 299 The next morning the old Archbishop lay before the high altar in the church he had built. 1954Oxf. Jun. Encycl. XII. 8/2 Large churches often have subsidiary chapels with their own altars, and then the principal one is called the High Altar. |