OPage 33
- English Word Offer Definition To bid, as a price, reward, or wages; as, to offer a guinea for a ring; to offer a salary or reward.
- English Word Offer Definition To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten; as, to offer violence, attack, etc.
- English Word Offer Definition To present itself; to be at hand.
- English Word Offer Definition To make an attempt; to make an essay or a trial; -- used with at.
- English Word Offer Definition The act of offering, bringing forward, proposing, or bidding; a proffer; a first advance.
- English Word Offer Definition That which is offered or brought forward; a proposal to be accepted or rejected; a sum offered; a bid.
- English Word Offer Definition Attempt; endeavor; essay; as, he made an offer to catch the ball.
- English Word Offerable Definition Capable of being offered; suitable or worthy to be offered.
- English Word Offered Definition of Offer
- English Word Offerer Definition One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship.
- English Word Offering Definition of Offer
- English Word Offering Definition The act of an offerer; a proffering.
- English Word Offering Definition 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.
- English Word Offering Definition A sum of money offered, as in church service; as, a missionary offering. Specif.: (Ch. of Eng.) Personal tithes payable according to custom, either at certain seasons as Christmas or Easter, or on certain occasions as marriages or christenings.
- English Word Offertories Definition of Offertory
- English Word Offertory Definition The act of offering, or the thing offered.
- English Word Offertory Definition An anthem chanted, or a voluntary played on the organ, during the offering and first part of the Mass.
- English Word Offertory Definition That part of the Mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to offer up the elements for consecration.
- English Word Offertory Definition The oblation of the elements.
- English Word Offertory Definition The Scripture sentences said or sung during the collection of the offerings.
- English Word Offertory Definition The offerings themselves.
- English Word Offerture Definition Offer; proposal; overture.
- English Word Offhand Definition Instant; ready; extemporaneous; as, an offhand speech; offhand excuses.
- English Word Offhand Definition In an offhand manner; as, he replied offhand.
- English Word Office Definition That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices.
- English Word Office Definition A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office.
- English Word Office Definition A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new.
- English Word Office Definition That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent beings.
- English Word Office Definition The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office.
- English Word Office Definition The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.