| 单词 | to offer up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto offer up a. transitive. To present (something) to God, a god, a saint, etc., as an act of devotion; to sacrifice; to give in worship. Frequently as to offer up. Also with to or indirect object (in early use, dative).The object may be a material thing, as a slain animal, vegetable produce, incense, money, etc. (cf. offering n. 3); or, by extension, prayer, thanksgiving, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > sacrifice [verb (transitive)] offereOE teemc1275 sacrea1325 sacrify1390 sacrificea1400 presentc1425 exhibit1490 immolate1548 immole1610 shrine?1611 victim1671 victimize1853 oblate1872 eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) lxv. 13 (15) Holocausta medullata offeram tibi : onsegdnisse merglice ic ofriu ðe. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxx. 266 Hit wæs gewunelic..þæt man gode ðyllice lac offrode on cucan orfe. OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Exod. (Claud.) xii. 6 Ofrian eall Israhela folc ðæt [lamb] on æfen. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1003 Aȝȝ wass sallt wiþþ iwhillc lac Biforenn drihhtin offredd. a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily In Die Sancto Pentecosten (Lamb. 487) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 87 Heo sculden offrien of elchan hiwscipe gode an lomb. c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 214 (MED) Þrie kinges..wolden offri him gold and stor and Mirre. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 1 Cor. x. 20 Tho thingis that hethene men offren, thei offren to deuelis and not to God. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 27 (MED) The seid preests to haue j d. ob. to offre at the messe. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 2881 He offert onestly in honour of Venus A gobet of gold. 1549 R. Crowley Voyce Laste Trumpet sig. Bii Christ was once offered for al To satisfie for all our synne. a1564 Q. Kennedy Compend. Ressonyng in 2 Eucharistic Tracts (1964) 182 The preist, to quhom It appertenit to..offir vp sacrifice. 1578 Ps. li, in Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 119 Gif thou had pleased sacrifice I suld have offered thee. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. ii. sig. F I haue a prayer or two, to offer vp. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 792 Then did he offer Incense to Vitzliputzli. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 160. ¶2 After having washed my self and offered up my Morning Devotions. 1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph 211 She offered up a prayer that it might turn out as my lord V— had suggested. 1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 69 I would not one of thine own doves, Not ev'n a rose, were offer'd to thee. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 311 Offer up a prayer with me and follow. 1954 J. Corbett Temple Tiger 55 The greybeards of the village..had consulted the stars and offered up prayers. 1997 W. Dalrymple From Holy Mountain (1998) iii. 140 They call Lucifer ‘Malik Taws’, the Peacock Angel, and offer sacrifices to keep him happy. < as lemmas |
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