Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä

Ääntäminen

  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈɒfət(ə)ɹi/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈɑfəɹˌtɔɹi/
Käännös
Substantiivit
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Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. (Christianity) A prayer said or sung as an anthem while offerings of bread and wine are placed on the altar during the Roman Catholic Mass or the Anglican Communion service.
  2. (Christianity) The part of the Eucharist service when offerings of bread and wine are placed on the altar and when any collection is taken; also, the money or other things collected.
  3. (Christianity, historical) A linen or silken cloth anciently used in various ceremonies connected with the administration of the Eucharist.

Esimerkit

  • But alderbest he sang an offertory: / For well he wiste, when that song was sung, / He muste preach […].
  • There was an impressive musical program, conducted by Sheldon Smeeth, educational director of the Y.M.C.A., who also sang the offertory.
  • Before a month had passed the congregation at the evening service at St. Asaph's Church was so slender that the offertory, as Mr. Furlong senior himself calculated, was scarcely sufficient to pay the overhead charge of collecting it.
  • I sat through the sermon, and the offertory, and the recessional.
  • Even the coins in the offertory were accredited with magical value; there were numerous popular superstitions about the magical value of communion silver as a cure for illness or a lucky charm against danger.

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkooffertories