ALTARAGE

AL'TARAGE, noun The profits arising to priests from oblations, or on account of the altar. Also, in law, altars erected in virtue of donations, before the reformation, within a parochial church, for the purpose of singing a mass for deceased friends.

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Al″tar‐age (�), n. [[Cf. OF. auterage, autelage.]] 1. 1. The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.
2. 2. The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.