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 Translation for 'high altar' from English to Polish
NOUN   a high altar | high altars
relig.
wielki ołtarz {m}
high altar
Partial Matches
relig.
ołtarz {m}
altar
arch.relig.
balaski {f.pl} ołtarzowe
altar rails
relig.
obrus {m} ołtarzowy
altar-cloth
relig.
ministrant {m} [osob.]
altar boy
wysoki {adj}high
4
wysoka jakość {f}high quality
sport
skok {m} wzwyż
high jump
pol.
zdrada {f} stanu
high treason
wysoki standard {m}high standard
przypływ {m} [morza]high tide
fiz.tech.
wysokie napięcie {n}
high voltage
odzież
kozak {m}
high boot
odzież
szpilki {f.pl} [buty na obcasie] [pot.]
high heels
woj.
naczelne dowództwo {n}
high command
relig.
arcykapłan {m} [osob.]
high priest
dobre zdanie {n}high opinion
szeroko znany {adj}high-profile
tech.
wysokie ciśnienie {n}
high pressure
wysokociśnieniowy {adj}high-pressure
drożyzna {f} [pot.]high prices
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Usage Examples English
  • After his death, he was given an honorable burial and interred before the high altar of the Dominican Church in Leipzig.
  • The New Minster monks moved to Hyde in 1110 a little north of the city, and they transferred to Hyde Abbey along with Alfred's body and those of his wife and children, which were interred before the high altar.
  • In 1880 his relics were translated to a tomb on the south side of the high altar, when that building was restored after being partially destroyed by a fire in 1174.
  • It terminates in the vaulted chancel containing the high altar at the extreme eastern end of the church.
  • It is open to the public during the day and public sculptures include, the former Catholic Boys' School entrance statue dedicated to dockers and seafarers, a 15-foot crucifix that stood on the site of the old high altar and a contemporary granite and light sculpture, "A Doorway of Hope", by sculptor Nicolas Moreton.

  • It was then that Hendrik's grave was moved and given a place of honor in front of the high altar.
  • The church's high altar reportedly stood on the spot where Harold died.
  • The shrine of Saint Cuthbert, situated behind the High Altar of Durham Cathedral, was the most important religious site in England until the martyrdom of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury in 1170.
  • Her sarcophagus, made by the Lübeck sculptor Johannes Junge in 1423, is situated behind the high altar in the Roskilde Cathedral, near Copenhagen.
  • Reconstruction started in 1952 and on 1 November 1963, All Saints' Day, the new high altar was consecrated by the Bishop of Berlin, Alfred Cardinal Bengsch.

  • The word refers to the presence and prominence of the bishop's or archbishop's chair or throne, raised above both clergy and laity, and originally located facing the congregation from behind the high altar.
  • Twenty-eight cartloads of sacred bones were said to have been removed from the Catacombs and placed in a porphyry basin beneath the high altar.
  • Following his death in 1626 in his Southwark palace, he was mourned alike by leaders in church and state, and buried beside the high altar at St Saviour's (now Southwark Cathedral, then in the Diocese of Winchester).
  • According to an IAA archaeologist, the decoration was once inlaid with pieces of glass and fine marble; it indicates that the relic was the front of the church's high altar from the Crusader era (c. ...
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