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al⋅tar⋅age

   [awl-ter-ij]
–noun
1. Ecclesiastical.
a. offerings made upon an altar of a church.
b. offerings made to a church.
2. an honorarium paid to a priest for services at the altar from offerings and gifts.
3. endowments for the saying of Masses for deceased persons, often at a particular altar.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME awterage < AF, OF auterage. See altar, -age
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Altarage

Al"tar*age\, n. [Cf. OF. auterage, autelage.]

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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