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Word Meanings - OBLATIONER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes an offering as an act worship or reverence. Dr. H. More.

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  • WORSHIPFUL
    Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically. "This is worshipful society." Shak. so dear and worshipful. Chaucer. -- Wor"ship*ful*ly, adv.
  • OFFERER
    One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
  • WORSHIPABLE
    Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship. Carlyle.
  • OFFERTURE
    Offer; proposal; overture. More offertures and advantages to his crown. Milton.
  • OFFERTORY
    1. The act of offering, or the thing offered. Bacon. Bp. Fell. 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
  • MAKESHIFT
    That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
  • OFFER
    ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
  • REVERENCER
    One who regards with reverence. "Reverencers of crowned heads." Swift.
  • OFFERING
    1. The act of an offerer; a proffering. 2. That which is offered, esp. in divine service; that which is presented as an expiation or atonement for sin, or as a free gift; a sacrifice; an oblation; as, sin offering. They are polluted offerings more
  • WORSHIPABILITY
    The quality of being worthy to be worshiped. Coleridge.
  • WORSHIP
    1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness. Shak. A man of worship and honour. Chaucer. Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in his native land. Spenser. 2. Honor; respect; civil deference. Of which great worth and worship
  • OFFERABLE
    Capable of being offered; suitable or worthy to be offered.
  • WORSHIPER
    One who worships; one who pays divine honors to any being or thing; one who adores.
  • REVERENCE
    1. Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration. If thou be poor, farewell thy reverence. Chaucer. Reverence, which is the synthesis of love and fear. Coleridge.
  • MISWORSHIP
    Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle.
  • SELF-WORSHIP
    The idolizing of one's self; immoderate self-conceit.
  • UNREVERENCE
    Absence or lack of reverence; irreverence. Wyclif.
  • UNWORSHIP
    To deprive of worship or due honor; to dishonor. Wyclif.
  • PROFFER
    forth or forward, to offer; pro forward + ferre to bring. See Bear to 1. To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship. Shak. I reck not what wrong that thou
  • DISREVERENCE
    To treat irreverently or with disrespect. Sir T. More.
  • SCOFFERY
    The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery. Holinshed.
  • COFFERWORK
    Rubblework faced with stone. Knight.
  • HEAVE OFFERING
    An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering. Ex. xxix.
  • COFFER
    A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson. (more info) 1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. Chaucer. In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. Shak. 2. Fig.:
  • MISWORSHIPER
    One who worships wrongly.
  • DOFFER
    A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards. Ure.

 

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