单词 | burnt offering |
释义 | burnt offeringn. A sacrifice offered to a deity by burning. (As the word is chiefly familiar in Scriptural use, it naturally suggests in the first place the animal sacrifices of the Jews.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > burnt holocausta1325 burnt-sacrifice1382 burnt offeringc1384 fire offering1617 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark xii. 33 To loue neiȝebore [read loue the neiȝebore] as him silf, is more than alle brend offringis [a1425 New Coll. Oxf. sacrifices] and sacrificis. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job i. 5 Job..offred for every one a brentofferinge. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sacrifice When the Victim was slain, they flead him, if it was not a Burnt Offering; (for then they burn'd Skin and all). 1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece IX. ii. lxxi. 236 Have you ever sacrificed to him with entire burnt-offerings as we used to do together at Athens? Derivatives burnt-sacrifice n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > burnt holocausta1325 burnt-sacrifice1382 burnt offeringc1384 fire offering1617 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xx. 24 Ȝe shulen offre vpon it ȝoure brent sacrifices. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 21 I offer my self to the this mornyng in ane brounte sacrifice. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings xvi. 15 Burne..the Kings burnt sacrifice . View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1382 |
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