Word Finder - offering

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To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).

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She offered to help with her homework.

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To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.

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Everybody offered an opinion.

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To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.

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He offered use of his car for the week.  He offered his good will for the Councilman's vote.

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To present (something) to God or gods as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.

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To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.

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To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.

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I offered twenty dollars for it. The company is offering a salary of £30,000 a year.

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To happen, to present itself.

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To make an attempt; typically used with at.

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To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.

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to offer violence to somebody

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The act by which something is offered.

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That which has been offered; a sacrifice.

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An oblation or presentation made as a religious act.

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A contribution given at a religious service.

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Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.

You are offering me a deal.

To be fair, his father hadn't made things any better by offering money to Alex and not his sister.

Now he was offering her a job taking care of his family?

He is offering you a deal, he said slowly.

He's a genie offering a bottle with a flying carpet tossed in.

Dean could tell when she refrained from offering tea and crumpets to the new arrivals.

Consuelo and her family were the last to leave after offering to help clean up.

She tipped her head back and leaned forward, offering a cheek.

Offering you a deal is helping you both.

He was offering her a job as a live-in maid.

After offering condolences for Randy's father, Dean added, "It's a little early for a Saturday night, isn't it?"

I was sorry to see them go, but with the baby coming on and Joe's parents offering him a good job out there in California, they didn't have much choice.

In October 1847 he wrote to Pius IX., offering his services to the Church, whose cause he for a moment believed to be that of national liberty.

After speaking about the economic costs of war, the burden it places on the economy, and the toll this takes on the people, Eisenhower closed by describing the peace proposals he was offering Russia and China.

He drew his mount to a halt beside her and kicked one foot free of the stirrup, offering a hand up.

She shuddered to her core at the evil peering through his gaze, feeling very much like the devil was offering her a deal without telling her the price.

Granted, he was Death, and she was offering a partnership running the underworld instead of deferring to him in his role in charge of the underworld.

Rostov was particularly in need of money now that the troops, after their active service, were stationed near Olmutz and the camp swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and Austrian Jews offering all sorts of tempting wares.

You heard her talk about the million dollar reward that rag of a newspaper is offering and she's poor as a church mouse on food stamps.

He rose to leave and then added, Whatever the age of that skeleton, the facts still remain that someone swapped the bones, someone stole the finger and 'metalman29' was offering an inflated price for the mine.

Her hands were by her sides, turned out, as if offering benediction for what she had done, as if to say, peace at last.

They reached a small group of horses, and the boy vaulted atop one, offering his hand.

They were offering more than she could make after several years' experience at the hospital in Tulsa.

Though he pleaded it was unnecessary, he readily pocked the offering.

She withdrew the grass from her pocket and held it out as a peace offering, uncertain how to take his mood.

She was in his world now, offering him something he'd allowed himself to fantasize about more than once.

They surrounded him, offering him whatever food they had and petting him.

All four perused the menu judiciously, with father and mother occasionally offering comments and explanations.

You want me, and I'm offering.

They marched towards London, while John made another attempt to delay the crisis, or to divide his foes, by granting a charter to the citizens of London (May 9, 1215), and then by offering to submit the quarrel to a court of arbitrators under the presidency of the pope.

The point of enduring interest as regards the Andamans is the penal system, the object of which is to turn the life-sentence and few long-sentence convicts, who alone are sent to the settlement, into honest, self-respecting men and women, by leading them along a continuous course of practice in self-help and self-restraint, and by offering them every inducement to take advantage of that practice.

He became a Salian priest at the age of eight, and soon knew by heart all the forms and liturgical order of the official worship, and even the sacred music. In the earliest statue we have he is a youth offering incense; he is a priest at the sacrificial altar in the latest triumphal reliefs.

In order not to confound the innocent with the guilty, Torquemada published a declaration offering grace and pardon to all who presented themselves before the tribunal and avowed their fault.

Independent carriers cannot run trains over the same line and underbid one another in offering transportation services.

By this definition the term sacrifice is extended to cover the inanimate offering which is consumed by fire, broken or otherwise rendered useless for the purpose of human life.

Just as the German reaper leaves the last ears of corn as an offering to Wodan, so the Australian black offers a portion of a find of honey; in New South Wales a pebble is said to have been offered or a number of spears, in Queensland the skin removed in forming the body-scars.

Thus it appears that the gift theory may after all be primitive; the worship of, or care for, the dead may have supplied in other areas the motive for the transition from offering to sacrifice or the evolution may have been due to the spiritualization of the gods.

In the most developed forms, such as the offering of soma, they assumed a great importance; (r) the sacrificer had to pass from the world of man into a world of the gods; consequently he was separated from the common herd of mankind and purified; he underwent ceremonies emblematic of rebirth and was then subject to numberless taboos imposed for the purpose of maintaining his ceremonial purity.

The remainder, divided into eighteen portions, was cooked; seven fell to the sacrificer, after an invocation, which made them sacred by calling the deity to descend into the offering and thus sanctify the sacrificer.

But the Nazarite was equally bound to lay aside his holiness before mixing with common folk and returning to ordinary life; this he did by a sacrifice, which, with the offering of his hair upon the altar, freed him from his vow and reduced him to the same level of sanctity as ordinary men.

The victims were often feted for a whole year and treated as divine; the heart was an offering to the god, the body was eaten by the priests and nobles and the head was preserved with those of previous victims.

But the most important offering was the solemn oblation in the assembly on the Lord's day.

The points in relation to this offering which are clearly demonstrable from the Christian writers of the first two centuries, but which subsequent theories have tended to confuse, are these.

The bread and wine are designated by all the names by which sacrifices are designated (sacrificia, hostiae, libamina, and at least once sacrificium placationis), and the act of offering them by the ordinary term for offering a sacrifice (immolatio).

The offering of bread and wine was originally brought to the altar by the person who offered it, and placed by him in the hands of the presiding officer.

The change is marked in the rituals by the duplication of the liturgical forms. The prayers of intercession and oblation, which in earlier times are found only in connexion with the former offering, are repeated in the course of the same service in connexion with the latter.

From that time until the Reformation the Christian sacrifice was all but universally regarded as the offering of the body and blood of Christ.

The reaction against the medieval theory at the time of the Reformation took the form of a return to what had no doubt been an early belief, - the idea that the Christian sacrifice consists in the offering of a pure heart and of vocal thanksgiving.

Luther at one period (in his treatise De captivitate Babylonica) maintained, though not on historical grounds, that the offering of the oblations of the people was the real origin of the conception of the sacrifice of the mass; but he directed all the force of his vehement polemic against the idea that any other sacrifice could be efficacious besides the sacrifice of Christ.

In 1867 there were no settlers on the west island, and the government issued a proclamation offering leases of grazing stations on very moderate terms. In 1868 all the available land was occupied.