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Definition of votive in English: votiveadjective ˈvəʊtɪvˈvoʊdɪv Offered or consecrated in fulfilment of a vow. Example sentencesExamples - His paintings, votive boxes, spirit bottles and sculpture are assembled from objects salvaged from the streets.
- DeCredico's medium-size bronze sculptures, with their dark brown patina, make one think of cult objects or votive offerings.
- It is difficult to accept her conclusion that ‘all autonomous images of wax, silver or gold should be interpreted as votive portraits’.
- These brightly painted feathered puppets represent spirits and figures from votive dances and are extensively collected.
- There are sacred votive caves where you can pick up thousand year-old beads that have been traded for salt as far away as China.
- You can make votive lamps really easily by sticking a bit of paper towel/cotton ball into a small cup of olive oil and lighting the end.
- Cities, as well as individuals, made votive offerings to the gods on special occasions.
- Also, the worshippers would cast their votive offerings for the goddess into the spring associated with the temple.
- Later, elaborate designs were carved on precious wood, ivory and metals, including silver and brass, and inlaid with gold and silver wire, and they became votive objects of veneration for devotees.
- At Benwell, the god Antenociticus had a small temple outside the Roman fort that was found to contain three votive altars set up by soldiers.
- There were also wall decorations, votive offerings, and richly furnished burials beneath the floors.
- Fine or folk art created or utilized specifically for protection, intercession, or votive offering.
- All around the competitors were votive dedications from successful athletes and cities, grateful for divine favor in athletics or in battle, respectively.
- The temple's courtyard has scores of small shrines and votive stupas.
- Many votive offerings were found, including bronze dogs and models of limbs suggesting a healing cult.
- Van der Velden offers a useful classification of votive gifts, of which the image is only one of many alternatives.
- A successful banker from Monday to Friday, he spent many a weekend in Atlantic City, where he cast his wealth like a votive offering to the glittering shrines of Fortuna.
- Among the objects on display here are votive offerings aimed at curing disease.
- Rivers were sacred in the Celtic world, and places where votive offerings were deposited and burials often conducted.
- Painted like Easter eggs, the crosses and ovals also suggest contemporary shrines and gently guide our thoughts toward gardens, votive objects and redemption.
Synonyms atoning, expiatory, oblatory, oblational, propitiatory
noun ˈvəʊtɪvˈvoʊdɪv An object offered in fulfilment of a vow, such as a candle used as a vigil light. Example sentencesExamples - Three of the remaining four small votives resemble strongly the numerous ‘altar-incense burners’ known from Delos.
- Clear glass votives shine with an inner coating of silver leaf.
- Do not put votives directly in wooden candle holders.
- The resulting wax designs are attached to solid-colored votives to make personalized gifts.
- Small votives tastefully displayed in a variety of glass cups are perfect for informal parties or intimate group settings.
- Candles, both large and small, tapered, pillar or votives all generate a warm, inviting, flickering light to the room.
- A high wall in an elegant London park is covered in drawings, photographs cut out of magazines and elaborately crafted votives.
- The current candle was a white, vanilla-scented votive.
- To raise money for new wool jumpers, Miss Cropsey decided that we would sell Christmas candles, little votives whose holders were covered in red or green velvet with fake pine cones attached.
- Etched-glass votives glow from within, where tea lights nestle.
- There were jar candles and votives, tall ones and short ones.
- They sat side by side, and each lit a candle for the one they had lost, sharing memories and thoughts of her as they watched the flames slowly consume the votives.
- In lighting a votive for one of these young women and girls who have been murdered, we will help illuminate a path so that their spirit can move out of darkness into the light.
- At least in its second phase, however, the building was equipped with a niche (for a votive or cult statue?)
- I wished the print on the tabletop roll and sushi menus hadn't been too small to read in the sputtering light of oil-based votives.
- The remaining materials that have been found in this building, such as votives, a sundial, basins, lamps, and other finds, could have been used in the last phase.
- Our class also constructed votives (used by the ancient Greeks as tokens to thank the god, Asclepius, for healing their ailments).
- A thin woolen blanket had been lain on the wood-planked floor with several lit glass jar candles and votives surrounding the blanket and resting on the railing.
- Place glasses on the table in lieu of traditional tapers or votives.
- As with any divinity, more personalized dedications show variation from these norms, and Demeter's votives may not be identical at every sanctuary.
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin votivus, from votum (see vote). The original sense was 'expressing a desire', preserved in votive Mass. Definition of votive in US English: votiveadjectiveˈvōdivˈvoʊdɪv Offered or consecrated in fulfillment of a vow. Example sentencesExamples - Later, elaborate designs were carved on precious wood, ivory and metals, including silver and brass, and inlaid with gold and silver wire, and they became votive objects of veneration for devotees.
- Many votive offerings were found, including bronze dogs and models of limbs suggesting a healing cult.
- At Benwell, the god Antenociticus had a small temple outside the Roman fort that was found to contain three votive altars set up by soldiers.
- It is difficult to accept her conclusion that ‘all autonomous images of wax, silver or gold should be interpreted as votive portraits’.
- Among the objects on display here are votive offerings aimed at curing disease.
- There are sacred votive caves where you can pick up thousand year-old beads that have been traded for salt as far away as China.
- You can make votive lamps really easily by sticking a bit of paper towel/cotton ball into a small cup of olive oil and lighting the end.
- Cities, as well as individuals, made votive offerings to the gods on special occasions.
- DeCredico's medium-size bronze sculptures, with their dark brown patina, make one think of cult objects or votive offerings.
- Fine or folk art created or utilized specifically for protection, intercession, or votive offering.
- The temple's courtyard has scores of small shrines and votive stupas.
- All around the competitors were votive dedications from successful athletes and cities, grateful for divine favor in athletics or in battle, respectively.
- Rivers were sacred in the Celtic world, and places where votive offerings were deposited and burials often conducted.
- Also, the worshippers would cast their votive offerings for the goddess into the spring associated with the temple.
- There were also wall decorations, votive offerings, and richly furnished burials beneath the floors.
- Van der Velden offers a useful classification of votive gifts, of which the image is only one of many alternatives.
- These brightly painted feathered puppets represent spirits and figures from votive dances and are extensively collected.
- A successful banker from Monday to Friday, he spent many a weekend in Atlantic City, where he cast his wealth like a votive offering to the glittering shrines of Fortuna.
- His paintings, votive boxes, spirit bottles and sculpture are assembled from objects salvaged from the streets.
- Painted like Easter eggs, the crosses and ovals also suggest contemporary shrines and gently guide our thoughts toward gardens, votive objects and redemption.
Synonyms atoning, expiatory, oblatory, oblational, propitiatory
nounˈvōdivˈvoʊdɪv An object offered in fulfillment of a vow, such as a candle used as a vigil light. Example sentencesExamples - Do not put votives directly in wooden candle holders.
- A high wall in an elegant London park is covered in drawings, photographs cut out of magazines and elaborately crafted votives.
- They sat side by side, and each lit a candle for the one they had lost, sharing memories and thoughts of her as they watched the flames slowly consume the votives.
- There were jar candles and votives, tall ones and short ones.
- As with any divinity, more personalized dedications show variation from these norms, and Demeter's votives may not be identical at every sanctuary.
- A thin woolen blanket had been lain on the wood-planked floor with several lit glass jar candles and votives surrounding the blanket and resting on the railing.
- The remaining materials that have been found in this building, such as votives, a sundial, basins, lamps, and other finds, could have been used in the last phase.
- Clear glass votives shine with an inner coating of silver leaf.
- At least in its second phase, however, the building was equipped with a niche (for a votive or cult statue?)
- Etched-glass votives glow from within, where tea lights nestle.
- Small votives tastefully displayed in a variety of glass cups are perfect for informal parties or intimate group settings.
- To raise money for new wool jumpers, Miss Cropsey decided that we would sell Christmas candles, little votives whose holders were covered in red or green velvet with fake pine cones attached.
- The resulting wax designs are attached to solid-colored votives to make personalized gifts.
- Candles, both large and small, tapered, pillar or votives all generate a warm, inviting, flickering light to the room.
- Three of the remaining four small votives resemble strongly the numerous ‘altar-incense burners’ known from Delos.
- The current candle was a white, vanilla-scented votive.
- I wished the print on the tabletop roll and sushi menus hadn't been too small to read in the sputtering light of oil-based votives.
- Place glasses on the table in lieu of traditional tapers or votives.
- In lighting a votive for one of these young women and girls who have been murdered, we will help illuminate a path so that their spirit can move out of darkness into the light.
- Our class also constructed votives (used by the ancient Greeks as tokens to thank the god, Asclepius, for healing their ailments).
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin votivus, from votum (see vote). The original sense was ‘expressing a desire’, preserved in votive Mass. |