Altarage
ecclesiastical.
offerings made upon an altar of a church.
offerings made to a church.
an honorarium paid to a priest for services at the altar from offerings and gifts.
endowments for the saying of m-sses for deceased persons, often at a particular altar.
historical examples
the vicar of rothwell, for the maintenance of himself and a fellow-priest, shall have all the altarage with a competent manse.
parish priests and their people in the middle ages in england edward l. cutts
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