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Definition of Offertory
1. Noun. The offerings of the congregation at a religious service.
2. Noun. The part of the Eucharist when bread and wine are offered to God.
Generic synonyms: Oblation, Religious Offering
Definition of Offertory
1. n. The act of offering, or the thing offered.
Definition of Offertory
1. Noun. money offered or donated during a church service ¹
2. Noun. the part of a church service when offerings are collected ¹
3. Noun. music sung or played during the offertory of a church service ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Offertory
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Medical Definition of Offertory
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Origin: L. Offertorium the place to which offerings were brought, in LL. Offertory: cf.F. Offertoire.
1. The act of offering, or the thing offered.
2. An anthem chanted, or a voluntary played on the organ, during the offering and first part of the Mass. That part of the Mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to offer up the elements for consecration.
The oblation of the elements.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Offertory
Literary usage of Offertory
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 (1874)
"This question of the offertory is the main-spring of all Church Finance. ...
We have heard much excellently said on the subject of the offertory, which, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This silent prayer ÍE undoubtedly an offertory prayer. But a later modification
in the East brought about one of the characteristic differences between ..."
3. Divine Worship in England in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by John David Chambers (1877)
"offertory VEIL. Moreover, a principal Ornament to be ufed in Celebration is the "
Offertorium ... of " the Chalice with its ears enveloped in its offertory. ..."
4. Notitia Eucharistica: A Commentary, Explanatory, Doctrinal, and Historical by William Edward Scudamore (1876)
"We have seen that the offertory was originally an anthem sung hy the Choir, but
in most of the Dioceses of England it had long been said by the Priest only. ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"This little tract, which is an enlarged reprint from his Remarks on English
Churche», discusses the desirability of reviving the weekly offertory, ..."
6. The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine (1866)
"THE pew-rent system and the offertory are, or ought to be, considered as two
distinct things having two distinct objects. But unfortunately now-a-days the ..."
7. The New Music Review and Church Music Review by American Guild of Organists (1906)
"Jubilate—Chant Benedictus j ш Eb Stainer Introit, Let the Brother Macfarren
Communion Service in Eb Stainer offertory, The Lord Redeemeth Calkin, ..."
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