altar vessel

A ve el used in the Anglican Communion Service or in the Roman Ma . altar-wise, adv . After the manner of an altar. ( Laud : Speech in the Star Chamber .) al-tar-age, s. [Low Lat. altaragium .] 1. Revenue derived by a priest or clergyman from offerings made in connection with an altar. 2. An altar or altars erected within a church in med iæval times, with money left to purchase ma es for some person deceased. IMG:content-0419.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Lit. Med. A kind of medicine which, when given, appears for a time to have little or no effect, but which ultimately changes, or tends to change, a morbid state into one of health. Garrod divides alteratives into seven groups: (1) Mercurial Alteratives, (2) Iodine Alteratives, (3) Chlorine Alteratives, (4) Arsenical Alteratives, (5) Antimonial Alteratives, (6) Sulphur Alteratives, and (7) Alteratives of undetermined action. 2. Fig .: Anything fitted to produce an alteration for the better on a morbid mind. "Like an apothecary's shop, wherein are remedies for all infirmities of mind, purgatives, cordials, alter a tives."-Burton: Anat. of Mel . , p. 279. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pět,