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Mothering :: Mothering (n.) A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar..

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

Oblation :: Oblation (n.) Anything offered or presented in worship or sacred service; an offering; a sacrifice.

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

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..

Presentation :: Presentation (n.) The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal..

Offering :: Offering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Offe.

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

Offer :: Offer (v. t.) The act of offering, bringing forward, proposing, or bidding; a proffer; a first advance..

Proposition :: Proposition (n.) The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.

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..

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..

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

Offertory :: Offertory (n.) The Scripture sentences said or sung during the collection of the offerings.

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..

Presentative :: Presentative (a.) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative..

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

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

Goffering :: Goffering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Goffe.

Propination :: Propination (n.) The act of pledging, or drinking first, and then offering the cup to another..

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