Look up: altarage


  1. Altarage
    Al'tar·age noun [ Confer Old French auterage , autelage .] 1. The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church. 2. The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/63

  2. Altarage
    • (n.) The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. • (n.) The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/altarage/

  3. Altarage
    Altarage is a term once commonly used in the Roman Catholic Church. From the low Latin altaragium — which signified the revenue reserved for the chaplain (altarist or altar-thane) in contradistinction to the income of the parish priest — it came to signify the fees received by a priest from the...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altarage

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