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re contracted, also of the position of the various parts of our bodies and the resistance offering by external objects.

The act of offering, or of making an offering. Locke.

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

ppening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering. [Obs.] "Tithes and other obventions." Spenser. Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualities and obventions. Fuller.

t in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement. Ex. xxix. 36. A holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices. 1 Pet. ii. 5.

The act of offering, or the thing offered. [Obs. or R.] Bacon. Bp. Fell.

A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.

f the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt.

Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost. Shipley.

The act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer; secret prayer. As he is famed for mildness, peace, and prayer. Shak.

to give, generally in a formal or ceremonious manner; to grant; to confer. My last, least offering, I present thee now. Cowper.

The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal. Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires. Hooker.

Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative. Blackstone.

cial accusation presented to a tribunal by the grand jury in an indictment, or the act of offering an indictment; also, the indictment itself.

The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Cæsar's death.…

The act of pledging, or drinking first, and then offering the cup to another. [Obs.] Abp. Potter.

The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering. "Oblations for the altar of proposition." Jer. Taylor.

The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.

The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution. The publication of these papers was not owing to our folly, but that of others. Swift.

Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.