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Offering :: Offering (n.) The act of an offerer; a proffering.

Offertory :: Offertory (n.) The offerings themselves.

Defensible :: Defensible (a.) Capable of offering defense.

Holocaust :: Holocaust (n.) A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations..

Sacrificatory :: Sacrificatory (n.) Offering sacrifice.

Offering :: Offering (n.) 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..

Utterance :: Utterance (n.) Sale by offering to the public.

Ex-voto :: Ex-voto (n.) An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow.

Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt..

Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation..

Victim :: Victim (n.) A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of..

Corsepresent :: Corsepresent (n.) An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.

Offertory :: Offertory (n.) The act of offering, or the thing offered..

Freewill :: Freewill (a.) Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering..

Prostitution :: Prostitution (n.) The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.

Altarage :: Altarage (n.) The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church..

Obvention :: Obvention (n.) The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering.

Collection :: Collection (n.) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings..

Lustrate :: Lustrate (v. t.) To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.

Licitation :: Licitation (n.) The act of offering for sale to the highest bidder.

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