Word Meanings - DISHALLOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams.

Related words: (words related to DISHALLOW)

• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• ALTARAGE
  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.
• ALTARIST
  A chaplain. A vicar of a church.
• PRIESTING
  The office of a priest. Milton.
• PRIESTESS
  A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. Abp. Potter.
• PRIEST-RIDDEN
  Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people. Swift.
• ALTARWISE
  In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.
• PRIESTISM
  The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood.
• PROFANER
  One who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles what is holy; one who uses profane language. Hooker.
• PRIESTCAP
  A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.
• ALTARPIECE
  The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
• PRIESTLY
  Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell. Shak.
• PRIESTCRAFT
  Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others. It is better that men should
• PROFANE
  temple, i. e., without the temple, unholy; pro before + fanum temple. 1. Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as,
• UNHOLY
  Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane; wicked; impious. -- Un*ho"li*ly, adv. -- Un*ho"li*ness, n.
• TENNYSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
• DISHALLOW
  To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams.
• ALTAR
  altaria, altar, prob. fr. altus high: cf. OF. alter, autier, F. 1. A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity. Noah builded an altar unto the Lord. Gen. viii.
• PRIESTHOOD
  1. The office or character of a priest; the priestly function. Bk. of Com. Prayer. 2. Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests.
• PRIESTLESS
  Without a priest. Pope.
• SALTARELLO
  A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.
• HIGH-PRIESTHOOD
  The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.
• SUPERALTAR
  A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on which different objects can be placed; a predella or gradino.
• GIBRALTAR
  1. A strongly fortified town on the south coast of Spain, held by the British since 1704; hence, an impregnable stronghold. 2. A kind of candy sweetmeat, or a piece of it; -- called, in full, Gibraltar rock.
• SALTARELLA
  See SALTARELLO