A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.
Credence table.
The preparation and preliminary oblation of the Eucharistic bread and wine in the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches.
The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish esfera from Latin sphaera (“sphere”) (without prothesis the word would have become *sfera).