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Altar vs Altarwise - What's the difference?

altar | altarwise |

As a verb altar

is .

As an adjective altarwise is

placed in the manner of an altar, against the eastern wall of the chancel with the longer side parallel to that wall.

altar

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.

    • Derived terms

    * altar boy * altar poem * high altar

    altarwise

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Placed in the manner of an altar, against the eastern wall of the chancel with the longer side parallel to that wall.
  • * 2009 , George Gresley Perry, A History of the English Church
    • But usually, when not used, the tables stood altarwise against the east wall.