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burnt offering

noun
/bɜːnt ˈɒfəɹɪŋ/UK/bɝnt ˈɔfəɹɪŋ/US

Etymology

PIE word *h₁epi From Middle English brend offring, brend offringe, from brend (past participle of brennen (“to burn”)) + offring, offringe (“presentation of something as a religious offering; offering presented to God or another deity”), used in biblical texts to translate Late Latin holocaustum (“burnt offering wholly consumed by fire”) in the Vulgate version of the Bible. The English term is analysable as burnt + offering.

  1. inherited from brend offring

Definitions

  1. A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin.

    • […] Job ſent for them, and clenſed them agayne, ſtode vp early, and offred for eueryone a brẽtofferinge [brentofferinge].
    • When they faſt I will not heare their crie, and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation I wil not accept them: but I will conſume them by the ſword, and by the famine, and by the peſtilence.

  2. Any similar sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to a deceased person.

  3. Overcooked food.

    • A cooler oven would give heavy, doughy loaves while a hotter oven would provide the family with the inevitable burnt offerings.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA