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Word Meanings - ALTARWISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.

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  • SOUTHWEST
    Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
  • SOUTHSAY
    See SOOTHSAY
  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • SOUTHWESTERLY
    To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
  • CHURCHLIKE
    Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
  • SOUTHPAW
    A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
  • ALTARAGE
    1. The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church. 2. The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.
  • PROPER
    Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
  • NORTHERNMOST
    Farthest north.
  • SOUTHERNLINESS
    Southerliness.
  • SOUTHREN
    Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
  • NORTHERN
    1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. --
  • NORTHMAN
    One of the inhabitants of the north of Europe; esp., one of the ancient Scandinavians; a Norseman.
  • TOWARDS
    See TOWARD
  • ALTARIST
    A chaplain. A vicar of a church.
  • CHURCH
    AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally
  • CHURCHYARD
    The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.
  • CHURCH-BENCH
    A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
  • NORTHMOST
    Lying farthest north; northernmost. Northmost part of the coast of Mozambique. De Foe.
  • NORTHEAST
    Of or pertaining to the northeast; proceeding toward the northeast, or coming from that point; as, a northeast course; a northeast wind. Northeast passage, a passage or communication by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the north
  • TOWARD; TOWARDS
    1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
  • APPOSITION
    The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
  • IMPROPERLY
    In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
  • OPPOSITIONIST
    One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
  • SALTARELLO
    A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.
  • IMPROPERATION
    The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne

 

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