Definition of offering

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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..

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Offertory :: Offertory (n.) An anthem chanted, or a voluntary played on the organ, during the offering and first part of the Mass..
Confarreation :: Confarreation (n.) A form of marriage among the Romans, in which an offering of bread was made, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses..
Goffering :: Goffering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Goffe.
Presentation :: Presentation (n.) The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a clergyman.
Offering :: Offering (n.) The act of an offerer; a proffering.
Alternative :: Alternative (a.) Offering a choice of two things.
Incense :: Incense (n.) The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.
Publication :: Publication (n.) The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution..
Collection :: Collection (n.) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings..
Offering :: Offering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Offe.
Sacrificatory :: Sacrificatory (n.) Offering sacrifice.
Presentative :: Presentative (a.) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative..
Lustrate :: Lustrate (v. t.) To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to purify.
Offertory :: Offertory (n.) The offerings themselves.
Parsonage :: Parsonage (n.) A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish..
Gift :: Gift (v. t.) Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.
Khutbah :: Khutbah (n.) An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Mohammedan mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed and his descendants, and the ruling princes..
Quadragesimals :: Quadragesimals (n. pl.) Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.
Altarage :: Altarage (n.) The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church..
Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (v. i.) To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice..
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