mensa
noun
the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
Mensae
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genitive of
mensa.
mensae
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pluralof mensa.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
mensanounthe flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
Example Sentences
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In the religion of the family Ovid indeed has charmingly expressed it, perhaps on the authority of some lost passage of Varro296:— ante focos olim scamnis considere longis mos erat, et mensae credere adesse deos.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
At once O'Toole's face brightened, and with a shout of pride he reeled out, "Mensa, mensa, mensam, mensae, mensae, mensa."
From Clementina by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
The century writers777 make out of Dionysius Alexandrinus's epistle to Xistus, bishop of Rome, that the custom of the church of Alexandria in receiving the sacrament, was, ut mensae assisterent.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
