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The higher part of the scale. See Alto. To be in alt, to be in an exalted state of mind.

Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.

ne or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity. Noah builded an altar unto the Lord. Gen. viii. 20.

The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.

A chaplain.

The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.

An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously.

otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. "To alter the king's course." "To alter the condition of a man." "No power in Venice can alter a decree." Shak. It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Pope. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my l…

The quality of being alterable; alterableness.

Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.

The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.

In an alterable manner.

Altering; gradually changing. Bacon.

The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.

Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton.

The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.

ords; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. "Stormy altercations." Macaulay.

Characterized by wrangling; scolding. [R.] Fielding.

lity of being other; a being otherwise. [R.] For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge.