Definition of Offertories

1. Noun. (plural of offertory) ¹

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Definition of Offertories

1. offertory [n] - See also: offertory

Lexicographical Neighbors of Offertories

offer up
offerable
offered
offeree
offerees
offerer
offerers
offerest
offereth
offering
offering protection
offerings
offeror
offerors
offers
offertories (current term)
offertory
offerture
offertures
offfield
offhand
offhanded
offhandedly
offhandedness
offhandednesses
offhold
office
office-bearer
office-house
office-wall

Literary usage of Offertories

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1894)
"And now a word as to the allocation of Church offertories. We have to depend very much for this upon our good friends, the churchwardens, who are sometimes ..."

2. Hymns of the Church, New and Old by William Vail Wilson Davis, Raymond Calkins (1912)
"... And pure devotion rise, While, round these hallowed walls, the storm Of earth-born passion dies. Amen. WILLIAM CULLIN BRYANT offertories JOSEPH ..."

3. A life at one living by Alfred Gatty (1884)
"... paid out of the offertories. * In support of the theory, that bodies used to be systematically taken from their graves, after a time, and the bones ..."

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