| 释义 |
altarwise, adv.|ˈɔːltəwaɪz|
[f. altar + wise.]
After the manner of an altar; in the position of an altar in a church.
1562in Strype Ann. Ref. (1824) I. i. xxvii. 475 That the table from henceforth stand no more altarwise. 1637Laud Sp. in Star-Ch. (T.) The holy table ought to stand at the upper end of the quire, north or south, or altarwise. [See also altar 2 b.] 1697Dryden Virgil (1806) III. 161 In altar-wise, a stately pile they rear. 1859Masson Milton I. 629 Fixing the communion-table altarwise at the east end of the chancel. |