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a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 45^v Offenca [perh. read offerencia], ofretorye songs.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 90 So was the Paschall Lambe [sc. the type of Christ], and the other offertory Lambes too.

1724 London Gaz. No. 6290/2 The Offertory Sentence being read.

1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers I. v. 402 Beside the tunicle, there is worn by the subdeacon,..the offertory-veil.

1867 Catholic World Dec. 380/2 The offertory sentence is read in the same position.

1873 Littell's Living Age 1 Nov. 279/1 Towards the close of the festival some offertory sentences are read.

1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 274 A principal Ornament to be used in Celebration is the ‘Offertorium’, or Offertory Veil.

1879 ‘H. Stretton’ Through Needle's Eye I. 90 The offertory money passed through Mrs. Cunliffe's hands.

1886 Christian Herald (N.Y.) 9 285 An offertory-box placed at the door of a famous place of worship.

1937 E. Underhill Worship (ed. 3) xii. 261 In some places the ancient ceremony of the offertory-procession has been restored.

1957 M. Spark Comforters v. 112 Although her eyes and ears had been following the Mass throughout, it was not until the Offertory verse that she collected her wits.

1989 Miller's Collectables Price Guide 1989–90 468/1 An illustrated offertory box, 17th C.

1993 G. Ward Water Damage (1994) x. 109 The rector of St. Matthew's, an ex-prison chaplain, finished his sermon and announced the offertory hymn.