| 释义 |
burnt ˈoffering, burnt-ˈoffering
A sacrifice offered to a deity by burning. (As the word is chiefly familiar in Scriptural use, it naturally suggests in the first place the animal sacrifices of the Jews.) So also burnt-sacrifice.
1382Wyclif Mark xii. 33 More than alle brend offringis [v.r. sacrifices] and sacrificis. 1535Coverdale Job i. 5 Job..offred for every one a brentofferinge. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v. Sacrifice, When the victim was slain, they flayed him, if it was not a burnt-offering (for then they burnt skin and all). 1852Grote Greece ii. lxxi. IX. 236 Have you ever sacrificed to him with entire burnt-offerings as we used to do together at Athens?
1382Wyclif Ex. xx. 24 Ȝe shulen offre vpon it ȝoure brent sacrifices. 1588A. King Canisius' Catech. 21, I offer my self to the this mornyng in ane brounte sacrifice. 1611Bible 2 Kings xvi. 15 Burne..the Kings burnt sacrifice. |