Usually means: Arranged or positioned like an altar.
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  1. altarwise: Merriam-Webster
  2. altarwise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. altarwise: Wordnik
  4. altarwise: Wiktionary
  5. Altarwise: Dictionary.com
  6. Altarwise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. altarwise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Altarwise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. altarwise: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Altarwise: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. altarwise: Merriam-Webster

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▸ adjective:  Placed in the manner of an altar, against the eastern wall of the chancel with the longer side parallel to that wall.

Similar:
easterly, eastward, eastwardly, archwise, facing, edgeways, westerly, faceward, aligned, outbond, more...

Opposite:
antelucan, antelucanward, antelucanwardly

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Similar:
easterly, eastward, eastwardly, archwise, facing, edgeways, westerly, faceward, aligned, outbond, more...

Opposite:
antelucan, antelucanward, antelucanwardly



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