altarlike

English

Etymology

altar + -like

Adjective

altarlike (comparative more altarlike, superlative most altarlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an altar.
    • 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither:
      All this he inferred from the altarlike prow and there being no women on board.
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