Altarage: Definition and part of speech

Altarage

  1. n. The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes.
  2. n. The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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