offertory

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Christianityoffertoryof‧fer‧to‧ry /ˈɒfətəri $ ˈɒːfətɔːri, ˈɑː-/ noun (plural offertories) [countable] formal 1 RRCthe money people give during a religious ceremony in church SYN collection2 RRCthe offering of the bread and wine to God at a Christian church serviceExamples from the Corpusoffertory• In the first instance it acknowledges bread and wine as gifts by the gesture of the offertory.• This is the sense of the offertory as seen from the liturgical texts.Origin offertory (1300-1400) Medieval Latin offertorium, from Latin offerre; → OFFER1

单词	offertory
释义	offertory From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Christianityoffertoryof‧fer‧to‧ry /ˈɒfətəri $ ˈɒːfətɔːri, ˈɑː-/ noun (plural offertories) [countable] formal 1 RRCthe money people give during a religious ceremony in church SYN collection2 RRCthe offering of the bread and wine to God at a Christian church serviceExamples from the Corpusoffertory• In the first instance it acknowledges bread and wine as gifts by the gesture of the offertory.• This is the sense of the offertory as seen from the liturgical texts.Origin offertory (1300-1400) Medieval Latin offertorium, from Latin offerre; → OFFER1
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