offertory
noun/ˈɒfətri/
/ˈɔːfərtɔːri/
(plural offertories)
- the offering of bread and wine to God at a church service
- an offering or a collection of money during a church service
Word Originlate Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin offertorium ‘offering’, from late Latin offert- (which replaced Latin oblat-) ‘offered’, from the verb offerre ‘bestow, present’ (in ecclesiastical Latin ‘offer to God’).
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