superaltaris

superaltaris [cf. CL super-+altare], ~ius 1 that is laid upon an altar, or ? f. l. a1222 pannus unus de serico albo diaspero cum pannis ij ~ibus [? l. super altaribus] ejusdem generis Process. Sal. 173 (cf. ib.: pannus unus de serico coram altari). 2 (as sb. n.) superaltar, portable consecrated stone slab (typically set in a wooden frame, to be laid on an unconsecrated table or sim. to constitute an altar). c1218 ~ia ‥ nimis stricta non habeant super que periculose celebratur set competenter ampla Conc. Syn. 81; ~e non est bene fixum in capsula Reg. S. Osm. I 311; 1236 unum ~ium, corporalia, et pixidem Cl 254; 1238 ~ia ‥ sint honesta ‥ firmiterque fixa in circumdante ligno ut non moveantur ab ipso Gros. Ep. 52* p. 156; tabula picta ante altare B. Virginis cum ~i caelato et cruce superposita G. S. Alb. I 233; 1295 misse non nisi in sacris altaribus vel ~iis integris celebrentur Reg. Wint. I 220; 1341 j magnum ~e portatorium RR K's Lynn I 160; 1387 altaria, ~ia, et cemeteria ‥ consecrandi ‥ committimus vices nostras Reg. Heref. 101; 1457 unum ~e de gagat cum ceteris altaris ornamentis Wills Richm. 3. 3 (as sb. n., in gl.). hoc ~e, a hye awtyr WW.

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