单词 | offered |
释义 | offeredadj. 1. a. Brought as an offering; presented for acceptance, etc.: see the various senses of the verb. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > [adjective] > sacrificed offeredOE immolate1534 immolated1548 sacrificed1597 offertory1641 the mind > possession > giving > offer or action of offering > [adjective] > offered profferedc1395 presented1563 offered1667 tendered1883 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxii. 355 Ðæt geoffrode lamb getacnode cristes slege. a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily In Die Sancto Pentecosten (Lamb. 487) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 87 Þet i-offrede lomb þet þe engel het offrian bitacneð cristes deðþe. 1566 J. Securis Detection sig. Cvijv The common prouerbe saith, that offered seruice stynketh. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 300 Thou thy self with scorne And anger wouldst resent the offer'd wrong. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 87 A..Goat..Whose offer'd Entrails shall..drip their Fatness from the Hazle Broach. View more context for this quotation 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. iv. 24 I should think it adviseable, my dear Father and Mother, to make such kind Excuses to the offered Services of my Cousins, as your better Reason shall suggest to you. 1766 S. Scott Sir George Ellison I. i. vi. 88 When he found Mr. Ellsion so firmly bent upon it, he told him that it was with great concern he refused the offered stewardship. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. vi. 107 He excused himself with hesitation for not accepting the offered favour. 1837 M. W. Shelley Falkner III. vii. 88 Her belief that the offered protection of Mrs. Raby would sound to the poor orphan as a hospitable shore to the wrecked mariner. 1885 Athenæum 25 July 104/2 Faust..discarded the offered aid. 1916 E. H. Porter Just David xiii. 169 ‘Well, by George!’ breathed the man dazedly, as he took the offered violin. 1994 P. Hamill Drinking Life ii. xiv. 106 It was the custom in Holy Name to hide one's eyes and bow the head, refusing to look directly at the offered host because that little wafer had become God. b. Telecommunications. Of a call: directed to a piece of apparatus. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [adjective] > of call directed to channel offered1960 1960 R. Syski Introd. Congestion Theory Teleph. Syst. v. 194 If an offered call cannot be served immediately because at the instant of its arrival no free channel is available, the source which originated it nevertheless continues to demand service. 1974 D. C. Cox & D. O. Reudink in W. C. Jakes Microwave Mobile Communic. vii. 550 Sometimes estimates of offered traffic are made directly instead of estimating attempt rates and holding times separately. 1984 J. Dunlop & D. G. Smith Telecommunications Engin. x. 316 Calls arrive at random with constant mean traffic and negative-exponential distribution of inter-arrival times (Poisson offered traffic). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > proposal of marriage > [adjective] offered1709 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 52. ⁋3 It..assigns to a long Despair the Woman who is well offer'd, and neglects that Proposal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.OE |
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