单词 | altar pile |
释义 | > as lemmasaltar pile a. General attributive. Of, belonging to, connected with, or used on an altar, as altar book, altar candle, altar pile, altar side, altar top, altar towel, etc.See also Compounds 2, and altar cloth n., altarpiece n., altar stone n., etc. ΚΠ 1549 in H. J. Feasey Anc. Eng. Holy Week Ceremonial (1897) 21 Dyuerse other thinges as Towelles, Aulter Cortyns [etc.]. 1590 T. Fenne Hecubaes Mishaps in Frutes sig. Ee3v I drew him to the altar side. 1618 ( Inventory in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 182 Syx alter towelles of lynnen cloth. 1642 H. Parker Altar Dispute iii. 36 If..the Altar wall were againe removed,..the Altar would be seene standing in the very middle of the Quire. 1649 J. Lightfoot Temple Service ix. 104 Going to the Altar top, he scrapes the coals this way, and that way. a1654 A. Ross Πανσεβεια (1655) xiii. 450 Wash also the Altar linnen. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 381 Church-Ornaments, Priest-Vestments, Altar-Garments, or such like Fundamental Articles of Papism. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxii. 40 A set of altar furniture of amber. 1816 Ld. Byron Darkness 58 The dying embers of an altar-place. 1832 R. Montgomery Messiah i. 10 Then Isaac, when the stony altar-pile..Was founded..cried,—‘My father!’ 1860 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 6 The Altar-tapers flar'd in gusts. 1865 F. G. Lee Purchas's Directorium Anglicanum (ed. 2) 5 (note) Where no Altar-cross has been provided..a metal Cross..is to be preferred to an embroidered one. 1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 34 From the altar-top Strewing her golden hair with ashes hoar. 1934 T. S. Eliot Rock ii. 74 The Crowd enter with altar-books. 1999 Fortean Times Feb. 7/2 When he opened the church door, he was nearly brained by a flying altar candle. < as lemmas |
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