offer to ire (ofertwor)

[F.: see offertory.] Same as offertory. offertorium (of-er-to'ri-um), n.; pl. offer to ria (-a). [LL.] Same as offertory. offertory (of'er-to-ri), n.; pl. offertories (-riz). [ME. offertory, offer a tory (also offer to ire, He [St. Paul] gave his will, made an offertory of that, as well as of his goods, choosing the act which was enjoined. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 55. 2. Eccles.: ( a ) In medieval usage - (1) A cloth of fine linen or richer material used to receive the bread offered by the people. (2) A cloth with which the deacon or a istant at ma lifted the chalice. (3) A strip of silk worn like a scarf, with which the acolyte, or afterward the subdeacon, held the empty paten from the time of the le er oblation till the end of the canon. Also called the offertory veil. (b) In the ma of the Roman Catholic and in the communion office of the Anglican and Protestant Episcopal churches-(1) The verses or the anthem said or sung while the gifts of the people are received and the celebrant is placing the unconsecrated elements on the altar; also, the musical setting of such verses or anthem. (2) The money (or, as formerly, other gifts) then received from the people. (3) The oblation of the unconsecrated elements then made by the celebrant. Also called the le er oblation. See oblation, 3. (4) The part of the service beginning with the offertory verses or anthem and ending before the Sursum Corda. - Offertory dish. Same as alms - basin.