altarstone

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altarstone (plural altarstones)

  1. Alternative form of altar stone
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
      From the high barbicans of the tower two shafts of light fall on the smokepalled altarstone.
    • 1938, Herman Joseph Heuser, The American Ecclesiastical Review:
      The indulgence is attached to the structure itself and not to the altarstone.
    • 1994, Elizabeth A. Graham, The Highlands of the Lowlands:
      The altarstone is situated just south of the stela; the area around it had been disturbed in an apparent looting attempt.