单词 | offerer |
释义 | offerern. 1. A person who offers a sacrifice or prayer, etc.; one who brings an offering. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > [noun] > one who makes offerera1382 sacrificator?1548 sacrificer1563 oblationer1593 immolator1652 victimary1652 sacrificant1665 society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > one who performs beadsman?c1225 prayera1382 offerer1526 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxix. 33 Þat þe hondis of þe offrers [L. offerentium] ben halowid. c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 260 (MED) Aftirward þat þei ben so offrid þei ben left and ȝouun bi þe offerers to þe preestis. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Heb. x. 2 The offerers once pourged shulde have hadde no moare consciences of sinnes. 1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 375 Prayers and Praises which the offerers vnderstand not. ?1625 T. Middleton Game at Chess (new ed.) ii Neerer the Altar the more safe and sacred... But neerer the offerors oft more wicked. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 135 A Fire, that will be sure to destroy the Offering, though Mercy should spare the Offerer. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal II. i. 157 The richer the oblation, or the dearer to the offerer, the greater would the merit of it be. 1872 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 1 138 The offerer, whilst saying this, throws some rice on the ground to pacify the evil spirits. 1919 Man 19 45 The palol after finishing his work comes towards the offerer of the animal. 1994 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 53 783 The low-caste Bāgdi immolates the animal and cuts it into pieces for the offerer to take home. 2. A person who presents something for acceptance; one who makes an offer or proposal; one who makes an attempt at something; a bidder, etc. Cf. also offeror n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > one who endeavours or attempts assayera1398 enterpriser1490 offerer1581 endeavourer1586 attempter1598 essayer1611 essayist1736 trier1891 the mind > possession > giving > offer or action of offering > [noun] > one who offers proffererc1530 presenter1559 offerer1581 propiner?1591 tenderer1650 society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > bidder cheaper1539 cheapener1633 bidder1685 offerer1868 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 162 One may more then halfe gesse, what they will receiue, when none seeth but the offerer. a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) v. vi. 32 Nay lets be offerers all. View more context for this quotation 1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. i. iii. 5 The sufferers of violence would have been Offerers of it, if empowred with Might equall to their Malice. 1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife i. 8 He's one of those nauseous offerers at wit. 1725 E. F. Haywood Rash Resolve I. 16 To the generous Offerer of Life, Liberty, and Deliverance from a thousand Evils. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. xii. 159 The Baronet..taking neither of the offer nor offerer the smallest notice, still stood opposite to Mr. Harrel, waiting for some explanation. 1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 419 There are favours..which confer as much grace upon the acceptor as the offerer. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. Promise and Offer... An offerer is not bound until his offer is accepted. A promiser is bound as soon as the promise reaches the party to whom it is made. 1864 J. Raine Priory of Hexham I. Pref. i. p. xxiii The modesty of the refuser only whetted the eagerness of the offerers. 1868 Perthshire Jrnl. 18 June The present Tenant (who is not to be an Offerer) will give directions for showing the boundaries. 1904 Science Nov. 598/1 The problem of knowledge is still on our hands, and every logician of whatever school, the offerer of this objection also, has, nevertheless, attempted to show what the transformation is that thought works, for all admit that it works some. 1933 Sci. Monthly 37 237/1 Suppose a letter containing an acceptance of an offer to sell goods is delayed and the offerer, believing his offer to have been declined, sells the goods to another before he receives the acceptance. 1989 Which? Apr. 169/3 It there's more than one offer, all the offerers could end up having surveys done on the same property. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382 |
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