1. The revenue arising from oblations at an altar.
1478. Paston Lett., 819, III. 232. The parson had all the awterage and oder profytes.
1661. J. Stephens, Procurations, etc., 108. Altaragies, that is, offerings made upon the Altar.
1778. T. Bateman, Agistm. Tithe (ed. 2), 83. The Vicar … is excluded from every Tithe—Altarage and Emolument.
2. A fund or provision for the maintenance of an altar and a priest to say masses thereat.
1634–46. J. Row (father), Hist. Kirk (1842), 27. That all formerlie pertaining to freirs, preists, monks, altarages, etc., be employed for schools and the poore.
1851. Orig. Paroch. Scot., I. 461. Between 1329 and 1371 John Spottiswood … founded an altarage in this church.
