superaltar definitions Oxford Reference Dictionary n. Eccl. a portable slab of ... med.L superaltare (as SUPER-, ALTAR) Webster's 1913 Dictionary Superaltar Su"per*al`tar, n. (Arch.) A raised shelf or ...
... The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of ...