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altarage|ˈɔːltərɪdʒ|
Also 5 awterage.
[a. OFr. auterage, autelage: see altar and -age.]
1. The revenue arising from oblations at an altar.
1478Paston Lett. 819 III. 232 The parson had all the awterage and oder profytes. 1661J. Stephens Procurations, etc. 108 Altaragies, that is, offerings made upon the Altar. 1778T. Bateman Agistm. Tithe (ed. 2) 83 The Vicar..is excluded from every Tithe—Altarage and Emolument.
2. A fund or provision for the maintenance of an altar and a priest to say masses thereat.
1634–46J. Row (father) Hist. Kirk (1842) 27 That all formerlie pertaining to freirs, preists, monks, altarages, etc., be employed for schools. 1851Orig. Paroch. Scot. I. 461 Between 1329 and 1371 John Spottiswood..founded an altarage in this church. |