† offrand, offerand Obs.
Forms: 2 ofrende, 3–5 offrend(e, 4 ofrande, 4–5 offrond(e, 4–6 offrand(e, offerand(e, 5 offerond, offorand.
[Early ME., a. OF. ofrende (11th c. in Littré), ad. med.L. offerenda ‘offering, oblation’, lit. ‘(thing or things) to be offered’, gerundive of offerre to offer. Used in ME. in same sense as offering, and still (? under Fr. influence) by Gower and Caxton, but otherwise peculiar to north. dial. after 1350, and after 1500 only Sc. The northern texts of Cursor Mundi, Hampole, Maundeville, etc., have regularly offrand, where the southern texts have offring, offering. In later times often spelt offerand, and prob. associated with offerand, northern form of offering, pr. pple. of offer vb.]
= offering vbl. n. 1, 2.
| c 1200 Vices & Virtues 85 Al swa ðe gode hlauerd ðe sent his menn ofrende for his aȝene wurscipe. c 1250 Old Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 26 Al swo hi hedden aparailed here offrendes swo kam si sterre þet yede to-for hem. a 1300 Cursor M. 1063 (Cott.) For his offrand [Fairf. offerande, Trin. offrynge] was rightwys. Ibid. 1940 (Cott.) Our lauerd drightin..Him liked wel in his offrand [F. offerande, Tr. offrynge]. Ibid. 5974 (Cott.) ‘Gas’ he said ‘her in mi land And to your lauerd yee mak offrand’ [F. offerande, Tr. offronde]. 1340 Ayenb. 41 Þe rentes þo offrendes þe tendes and þe oþre riȝtes of holy cherche. 1390 Gower Conf. III. 307 With great offrende and sacrifise. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) vi. 18 Ane of þe three kynges þat made offerand [Cott. MS. offryng] til oure Lord. c 1440 York Myst. x. 162 Bot wher-of sall oure offerand be? c 1477 Caxton Jason 98 Whan the preest had understande Iason that he promysed so good an offrande. 1513 Douglas æneis xii. xiv. 147 Pallas..Of the ane offerand to the Goddis makis. 1549 Compl. Scot. 8 He estimeit the grite offrandis that vas offrit be riche opulent men. a 1572 Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 39 That..thair offerand may be augmented. |