Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Middle English form of
altar .
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Examples
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This same yere there was a clerk that beleved nought on the sacrament of the auter, that is to seye Godes body, [89] which was dampned and brought into Smythfeld to be brent, and was bounde to a stake where as he schulde be brent.
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Others subscribe to an auter theory and get enitrely to much out of the collected Kubrik or Hitchcock than is healthy.
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By the way, you didn't give a label for late New York auter Andy Milligan!
The rats are slumming Arbogast 2008
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It was hisse-f; and shouldn't auter, and evoluushun.
Space Michener, James 1982
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They provided "a prest, brede, wyne, wex, boke, vestments and chalise for their auter of S. Nicholas in the said chapel."
The Parish Clerk 1892
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A wife, with the consent of her husband, may act as his or other's attorney, may be a guardian, trustee, administratrix or executrix, but cannot sue in _auter droit_ unless her husband join in the suit.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862
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'Et soit enquis de Burgessours et sunt tenus Burgessours trestous ceux que felonisement en temps de pees debrusornt esglises ou auter mesons, ou murs ou portes de nos cytes, ou de nos Burghes.'
Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829
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Fraunce, and dame Katerine his sustre, the duke of Burgoyne metten togiders in seint Petres chirche of Troys, in the body of the same chirch; and after went thei up to the high auter, and there tharticles of the peas redde, and the othes made on either partie: and than was the kyng and dame Katerine sured togiders.
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"Et soit enqui. s de Burgessours et sunt tenus Burgessours trestous ceux que felonisement en temps de pees debrusont esglises ou auter mesons, ou murs ou portes de nos cytes, ou de nos Burghes."
Autobiography 1821
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'Et soit enquis de Burgessours et sunt tenus Burgessours trestous ceux que felonisement en temps de pees debrusornt esglises ou auter mesons, ou murs ou portes de nos cytes, ou de nos Burghes.'
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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