搜尋結果
altar
- IPA[ˈôltər]
美式
- the table in a Christian church at which the bread and wine are consecrated in communion services;a table or flat-topped block used as the focus for a religious ritual, especially for making sacrifices or offerings to a deity
noun: altar, plural noun: altars
- 釋義
- 片語
名詞
- 1. the table in a Christian church at which the bread and wine are consecrated in communion services the huge jewelled tabernacle above the altar was executed by Jacopo da Trezzo
- ▪ a table or flat-topped block used as the focus for a religious ritual, especially for making sacrifices or offerings to a deity the altar is a crisply hewn block of granite impartial scientific inquiry has been sacrificed on the altar of political and military expediency