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Main Entry:	altar [awl-ter] Show IPA/ˈɔltər/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	church table, pedestal
Synonyms:	chantry, font, reredos, retable, shrine, tabernacle

Main Entry:	shrine
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	tribute to a god, idol, or spirit
Synonyms:	altar, chapel, church, enshrinement, grave, hallowed place, holy place, mausoleum, reliquary, sacred place, sanctorium, sanctuary, sanctum, sepulcher, temple

Main Entry:	communion table
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	alter in a Christian church
Synonyms:	Lord's table, altar, chancel table, holy table, table of the Lord

Example Sentences

Cucinotta flung her legs into a handstand against a sliver of a wall, a picture frame crashed down onto her altar.

So the best people, whatever their gender or race, are sacrificed on the altar of multiculturalism.

Governments worship at the altar of innovation for good reason: it now accounts for more than half of economic growth.

Cucinotta flung her legs into a handstand against a sliver of a wall, a picture frame crashed down onto her altar.

So the best people, whatever their gender or race, are sacrificed on the altar of multiculturalism.

Governments worship at the altar of innovation for good reason: it now accounts for more than half of economic growth.

After many months of digging, the excavators came to a section of older graves, near the area underneath the high altar.

The scientists who worship at the altar of science are doing a fine job of destroying our world.

Shades of a cobalt blue fresco can be found above the stepped altar.

The party fills the altar room, a small space ornamented with colorful art nouveau curlicues.

Women who choose the tenure track often sacrifice family life on the altar of career.

Then it was sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.

The sarcophagus had long been believed buried beneath the church's main altar.

These were destined for the altar of a magnificent stone abbey the settlers planned to build.

Instead the elephant is terrified by a mouse it sees while walking up to the altar.

Plus high school culture worships at the altar of mediocrity.

Parma they insist on it before letting you up seven flights of scaffolding to a special viewing platform above the high altar.

Now the ajq'ij laid out the offerings to the ancestors on his makeshift altar.

It's another case of ignoring even the priests because they're not standing on the right altar.

As doubts about whether countries would get to the altar faded, so yields in government-bond markets converged.

They will pray and place their handwritten ballots in a chalice atop an altar.

He was hauled to dry land by a scantily clad nun and an altar boy.

Cool-looking cakes were left at the altar for the deities.

Clients are encouraged to bring personal items, such as photographs, to keep with them or place on an altar.

Oracles usually meet patients in their houses, bringing them to an altar in the kitchen.

Wildung shows me his latest discovery: an altar excavated from beneath a fallen wall.

As part of the project, the sanctuary would be enlarged, the altar moved.

At first, they said, they did not think much of the heap of robes near the altar because work had been going on at the church.

Biographers make the mistake of spending too much time worshipping at the altar of their subjects.

Sometimes unconventional elements make their way to the altar as well.

Nuns sang unseen beyond the altar and people flocked to hear their hidden choirs.

No humans were sacrificed on the altar of the stones, but there are rumors that several chickens were beheaded.

Officiates and altar boys touched the tips of smaller candles to the master flame and then to those held by congregants.

He put candles at the altar and invited anyone who was grieving to come up during one of the carols and light a candle in memory.

If our work is worship, almost all of it is at a secular altar.

After two hours the ajq'ij knelt before the altar and began to chant.

The altar was decorated with palms and lilies and bright carnations.

Don't sacrifice your job prospects on the altar of high scores.

Those whose families have been hatched, matched and dispatched at the local altar decry such pragmatism.

Giardiello said, staring at a makeshift memorial on the altar comprised of a picture of.

Lawyers are prickly, and merger partners often fall out on the way to the altar.

Peek in at the fresco above the main altar memorializing the event.

To throw away an image of an altar is sacrilegious and extremely offensive.

Inside were a simple altar and portraits of saints painted on the walls.

Main Entry:	sacrarium
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	sanctuary
Synonyms:	altar, chancel, holy place, sanctorium, sanctum, shrine, temple

Main Entry:	sanctorium
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	sanctuary
Synonyms:	altar, chancel, holy place, sacrarium, sanctum, shrine, temple

Main Entry:	sanctum
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	sanctuary
Synonyms:	altar, chancel, holy place, sacrarium, sanctorium, shrine, temple

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