| 单词 | altar plate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaltar plate altar plate n. (as a mass noun) the plates, cups, and other vessels and utensils, typically of precious metal, used in the communion rite; (as a count noun) one of these, esp. a communion plate. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > vessel (general) > paten > [noun] patenlOE platena1450 patel1548 bread plate1608 bread bowl1638 altar plate1647 patera1658 offertory1672 patina1868 1647 Perfect Occurr. Parl. No. 6. 42 That the Kings Plate (called Altar-Plate) be melted, and made into Boules, for His Majesty to drinke in. 1798 W. Oppenheim tr. Geogr. & Statist. Acct. Cisalpine Republic 415 In the church St. Proculo is a very fine big altar-plate of verde antico, sixteen spans long. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. III. ii. xiii. 99 The desecration of the abbey-chapels and altar-plate. 1964 B. Millett Irish Franciscans i. iv. 84 The soldiers..[had] desecrated the tombs in the church in the belief that the altar-plate had been hidden in them. 2003 National Art Coll. Fund Rev. 2002 113/2 This bejewelled altar plate forms part of the furnishings of the chapel at Tyntesfield. < as lemmas |
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