altar
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noun
the table in a Christian church at which the bread and wine are consecrated in communion services.
祭壇, 供物台; 聖餐（せいさん）台, 聖体拝領台〘パンとワインが置かれている台; → church 〙 〘キリスト教〙
a table or flat-topped block used as the focus for a religious ritual, especially for making sacrifices or offerings to a deity.
PHRASES
lead someone to the altar
marry.
sacrifice on the altar of
make (someone or something) suffer in the interests of:
e.g. no businessman is going to sacrifice his company on the altar of such altruism.
ORIGIN
Old English altar, alter, based on late Latin altar, altarium, from Latin altus ‘high’.