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 Translation for 'altar table' from English to French
NOUN   an altar table | altar tables
relig.
table {f} d'autel
altar table
Partial Matches
arch.relig.
autel {m}
altar
5
œnol.relig.
vin {m} de messe
altar wine
relig.
servant {m} d'autel [aussi : servant de messe]
altar boy
relig.
enfant {m} de chœur [garçon] [à la messe]
altar boy
relig.
enfant {f} de chœur [fille] [à la messe]
altar girl
bot.T
arum {m} [Zantedeschia aethiopica, syn. : Arodes aethiopicum, Calla aethiopica, Richardia aethiopica]
altar-lily
relig.
autel {m} domestique
house altar
relig.
autel {m} domestique
home altar
relig.
servante {f} d'autel [aussi : servante de messe]
altar girl
relig.
autel {m} domestique
family altar
relig.
reposoir {m}
altar of repose
table {f}table
13
propos {m.pl} de tabletable talk
cuis.mycol.T
champignon {m} de couche [Agaricus bisporus]
table mushroom
cuis.mycol.T
champignon {m} de Paris [Agaricus bisporus]
table mushroom
sport
classement {m} du championnat
league table
meub.
surface {f} de (la) table
table surface
tableau {m} récapitulatifsummary table
meub.
table {f} des habitués
regulars' table
hydro.
niveau {m} hydrostatique
water table
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Usage Examples English
  • These small cards are brought forth to the altar table where they are burned.
  • An altar table (mensa) was also recovered, although that is now in Ampleforth Abbey, and a stone lectern base from the chapter house is the only example of its kind in Britain.
  • Specifically, and as the etymology of the word suggests, an antependium hangs down in front of whatever it covers, and is to be distinguished from the altar linens which are used in the service of the Eucharist, and an altar cloth which covers the top of the altar table ("mensa").
  • The pulpit was made in 1764 and the altar table in 1781.
  • The tub-shaped font is 12th-century, the communion rails and altar table are 17th-century, and beside the 20th-century pulpit is an ancient wrought-iron hourglass stand.

  • The altar table was rescued and re-erected in Pilisvörösvár in 1957.
  • The second case allowed the use of a marble sculpture by Henry Moore as an altar table.
  • Therefore, catholic churches were redecorated when they became reformed: Paintings and statues of saints were removed and sometimes the altar table was placed in front of the pulpit, as in Strasbourg Cathedral in 1524.
  • Further works have been carried out in the 20th century, with the addition of a chapel in the north aisle, containing an Elizabethan altar table.
  • He had the highly decorated High Altar and rood screen replaced by a plain white Wicklow granite altar table.

  • Its other notable use is in the consecration of church buildings, where it may be used to anoint the walls, the altar/table, and the place for reservation of the Eucharistic sacrament for the sick.
  • The first object having an association with Egypt to arrive in Turin was the Mensa Isiaca in 1630, an altar table in imitation of Egyptian style, which Dulu Jones suggests had been created for a temple to Isis in Rome.
  • The 17th century pulpit and altar table are Jacobean woodwork.
  • In that case they do not receive the clerical tonsure (though they must be tonsured nuns), and do not vest in the sticharion, but wear their normal religious habit for attending services, and serve at a certain distance from the actual altar table.
  • The altar table measures [...] deep and about [...] long.

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