Altar meaning /Alter meaning

Noun: altar

Pronunciation: (ol-tu)

Altar meaning: the holy place in a temple, especially the holy table in a church or to represent a sacred/Nobel cause.

Synonym: communion table

Quotations : Queen Victoria –  I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all. 

 Thomas Jefferson – I have sworn upon the altar of God,eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. 

 William Hazlitt –  There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue.Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. 

MacRina Wiederkehr – You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of daily life.

Sample sentences:

1. Boy: Where shall I lay these flowers and offerings? Girl: Don’t you know. Lay it at the altar.
2. Mahatma Gandhi sacrificed his life at the altar of Hindu-Muslim unity.
3. The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
4. He who was first an acolyte, and afterwards an abbot or curate, knows what the boys do behind the altar.
5. Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altars of conformity and popularity.
6. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.
7. On an altar of prejudice we crucify our own, yet the blood of all children is the color of God.
8. There were lots of road trips they went on. They went to summer camps where the priests were directors. They were altar boys – there was constant access to them.
9. It’s like you’ve been dating for two years, engaged for a year and you get to the altar and there’s another bride standing there.
10. I come from a generation where the dreams and aspirations of a whole lot of young men were sacrificed at the altar of getting some kind of menial job.

 Verb: alter

Pronunciation: (ol-tu)

Alter meaning:

• to change or to make changes. Become different in some particular way.
• Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

Marcel Proust – Time, which changes people,does not alter the image we have retained of them.

 Nelson Mandela – There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Carl Gustav Jung – God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all things which alter my plans and intentions, and change the course of my life, for better or for worse.

Tryon Edwards – Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?

Sample sentences:

1. The hours of business of the bank have been altered.
2. His dress needs to be altered.
3. Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
4. These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
5. It’s a scattershot strategy. You don’t know if you are reaching potential jurors or even generically altering public opinion.
6. Conclusions arrived at, through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
7. With the same company being the buyer and seller, volumes and prices are significantly altered at the expense of the Bolivian government and to the benefit of the company. This is going to change.
8. We altered the rotations of units during the January election. And I think it’s perfectly plausible to assume we’ll do the same thing for this election.
9. The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
10. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.