Crossword clues for offering
offering
- Agree freely
- Present for acceptance or rejection
- Make available or accessible, provide or furnish
- The act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity
- A contribution of money to a religious organization
- Propose a payment
- Sacrifice of iron circlet?
- Having stopped using ecstasy, call for sacrifice
- Church contribution
- Collection plate deposit
- Important part of a church service
- Collection plate contribution
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Offer \Of"fer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Offered; p. pr. & vb. n. Offering.] [OE. offren, AS. offrian to sacrifice, fr. L. offerre; ob (see OB-) + ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to offer, of the same origin. See 1st Bear.]
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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.
--Ex. xxix. 36.A holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices.
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To bring to or before; to hold out to; to present for acceptance or rejection; as, to offer a present, or a bribe; to offer one's self in marriage.
I offer thee three things.
--2 Sam. xxiv. 12. To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest; as, to offer an opinion. With the infinitive as an objective: To make an offer; to declare one's willingness; as, he offered to help me.
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To attempt; to undertake.
All that offer to defend him.
--Shak. To bid, as a price, reward, or wages; as, to offer a guinea for a ring; to offer a salary or reward.
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To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten; as, to offer violence, attack, etc.
Syn: To propose; propound; move; proffer; tender; sacrifice; immolate.
Offering \Of"fer*ing\, n.
The act of an offerer; a proffering.
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That which is offered, esp. in divine service; that which is presented as an expiation or atonement for sin, or as a free gift; a sacrifice; an oblation; as, sin offering.
They are polluted offerings more abhorred Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.
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A sum of money offered, as in church service; as, a missionary offering. Specif.: (Ch. of Eng.) Personal tithes payable according to custom, either at certain seasons as Christmas or Easter, or on certain occasions as marriages or christenings.
[None] to the offering before her should go.
--Chaucer.Burnt offering, Drink offering, etc. See under Burnt. etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late Old English offrung "the presenting of something to a deity; a thing so presented," verbal noun from offrian (see offer (v.)). Of presentations to a person from mid-15c.; to the public from 1834.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An act of offering. 2 That which has been offered; a sacrifice. 3 An oblation or presentation made as a religious act. 4 A contribution given at a religious service. 5 Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered. vb. (present participle of offer English)
WordNet
n. something offered (as a proposal or bid); "noteworthy new offerings for investors included several index funds" [syn: offer]
money contributed to a religious organization
the verbal act of offering; "a generous offer of assistance" [syn: offer]
the act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity; "oblations for aid to the poor" [syn: oblation]
Wikipedia
Offering may refer to:
In Buddhism, symbolic offerings are made to the Triple Gem, giving rise to contemplative gratitude and inspiration. Typical material offerings involve simple objects such as a lit candle or oil lamp, burning incense, flowers, food, fruit, water or drinks.
Contemporary Western practitioners often find the making of offerings to be occasions for gracious mindfulness. Within the traditional Buddhist framework of karma and rebirth, offerings also lead to:
:* a better rebirth in the cycle of birth and death (Pali: vattagamini-kusala)
:* progress towards release from suffering (Pali: vivattagamini-kusala).
These offerings often act as preparation for meditation.
Offering is an album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. It was inspired by the works of Juran Hisao, especially his detective story .
It was released in a limited edition of 505 copies in a gatefold sleeve. A second edition of 500 in a jewel case was to have been released, but this did not happen.
Offering is the second album released by the American hard rock band Axe, under the label of Atco Records, in 1982.
Offering is Larry Coryell´s seventh album as a leader. The album was released 1972 on the Vanguard label featuring Steve Marcus soprano sax, Mervin Bronson on bass, Mike Mandel playing electric piano with fuzz-wah and Harry Wilkinson on drums. The album was produced by Daniel Weiss and engineered by Jeff Zaraya. The album reached number 20 on the Jazz Albums chart.
Usage examples of "offering".
First, to the will of those who slew Him: and in this respect He was not a victim: for the slayers of Christ are not accounted as offering a sacrifice to God, but as guilty of a great crime: a similitude of which was borne by the wicked sacrifices of the Gentiles, in which they offered up men to idols.
Instead, a cool analogue of the adrenalin reaction rinsed through my mind, offering a chilly array of hard facts.
Since Walter was such a fund of anatomic and physiologic pathology, he was presented at all the conferences with everyone offering various opinions.
During the meeting, I briefly addressed my colleagues, offering my views from a medical standpoint on the anthrax exposure so far.
They are not only clumsy and childish designs ill executed, but they are rendered unintelligible to all save the initiated in such hieroglyphics, by offering an elaborate ground-work of type, antitype, and symbol, on which the artist probably spent a large part of his strength.
The Roman Catholic ceremony of beatification and canonization of saints, offering them incense and prayers thereafter, means exactly what was meant by the ancient apotheosis, namely, that while the multitudes of the dead abide below, in the intermediate state, these favored souls have been advanced into heaven.
People from the town and keep passed, offering congratulations on the boys apprenticeship and wishing them a good new year.
USB would cut costs by offering early retirement and firing nonessential staff, up efficiency through increased computerization, create a merchant banking division, and expand its trading operations.
While the faithful filled the churches offering up prayers for the success of the exorcisms, Mignon and Barre entered upon their task at the convent, where they remained shut up with the nuns for six hours.
Osiris offered them as a reward a life in the Field of Reeds, and the Field of Offerings of Food, and the Field of the Grasshoppers, and everlasting existence in a transmuted and beautified body among the resurrected bodies of father and mother, wife and children, kinsfolk and friends.
I have made holy offerings to the gods, and sepulchral offerings to the beautified dead.
These observations Bernard Longueville was disposed to make, and one afternoon, the opportunity offering, they rose to his lips and came very near passing them.
And I am glad that I have waited to make this attempt, for it seems to me that only of late have I come to understand and appreciate at its true value the character of her of whom I tell, and the passionate affection which was her bounteous offering to one so utterly unworthy as myself.
This booth was offering some spicy chicken wings, as well as brisket Heaven took a small bite of the chicken, which was smoky and tender, and then marked her ballot.
The sun was now shining brilliantly, and she saw a station crowded with Arabs in white burnouses, who were vociferously greeting friends in the train, were offering enormous oranges for sale to the passengers, or were walking up and down gazing curiously into the carriages, with the unblinking determination and indifference to a return of scrutiny which she had already noticed and thought animal.