Obs. Also 6 altel. [either a. OF. altel (now autel), or a diminutive form after L. sbs. in -ellum.] An altar; a small or inferior altar.
1555. [see ALTEL].
1556. Chron. Grey Friars (1852), 59. They shulde have … no communyone at no aultelle in the church but at the hye awlter.
