altarwise, adv.
(ˈɔːltəwaɪz)
[f. altar + wise.]
After the manner of an altar; in the position of an altar in a church.
| 1562 in Strype Ann. Ref. (1824) I. i. xxvii. 475 That the table from henceforth stand no more altarwise. 1637 Laud Sp. in Star-Ch. (T.) The holy table ought to stand at the upper end of the quire, north or south, or altarwise. [See also altar 2 b.] 1697 Dryden Virgil (1806) III. 161 In altar-wise, a stately pile they rear. 1859 Masson Milton I. 629 Fixing the communion-table altarwise at the east end of the chancel. |