单词 | meat offering |
释义 | meat offeringn. An offering consisting of food (esp. cereal). In later use also: an offering consisting of animal flesh. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > of food meat offering1535 lectisternium1597 prasad1714 pinda1785 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Num. vii. B Full of fyne floure myngled with oyle for a meatofferinge. 1611 Bible (King James) Lev. vi. 23 Euery meat offering for the Priest shal be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten. View more context for this quotation 1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 371 Aversating their Meat-Offerings, abhorring their Fasts. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 443 The meat-offerings were eucharistic, and the sin-offerings expiatory. 1923 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 53 226 The larger meat offerings are made when a sufficient number of men join together to be able to consume all the flesh at the spot after the offering is made. 1994 Man 29 312 In popular Catholic practice the distinction between meat offerings and vegetarian offerings is associated with a set of oppositions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1535 |
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