altar

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.

   “To hawke, or els to hunt From the auter to the funt, Wyth cry unreverent, Before the sacrament, Wythin the holy church bowndis, That of our fayth the grownd is.”

2. isim A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
3. isim Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.

   “[…]now marking the end of ascetic rationalism, the monadology no longer implied a sacrifice of individuality on the altar of rationality.”