Pulpit vs Alter - What's the difference?
pulpit | alter |
A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands to conduct the sermon.
A desk or platform for an orator or public speaker.
(nautical) The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck. It is sometimes referred to as bow'' ''pulpit''. The railing at the stern of the boat is sometimes referred to as as ''stern'' ''pulpit''; other texts use the perhaps more appropriate term ''pushpit .
To change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
As a noun pulpit
is a raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands to conduct the sermon.As an adjective alter is
.pulpit
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* wayside pulpitalter
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Alternative forms
* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)