Gathering vs Offertory - What's the difference?
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A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
A group of people or things.
((bookbinding)) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
A charitable contribution; a collection.
A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
present continuous of gather; collecting or bringing together
(Christianity) An anthem formerly sung as part of the Roman Catholic Mass or during the corresponding part of the Anglican Communion.
* c.1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), Canterbury Tales :
* 1922 , (Sinclair Lewis), Babbitt :
(Christianity) The part of the Eucharist service when offerings of bread and wine are placed on the altar and when any collection is taken; also, the money or other things collected.
* 1914 , (Stephen Leacock), Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich :
* 1922 , (Upton Sinclair), They Call Me Carpenter :
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 30:
As nouns the difference between gathering and offertory
is that gathering is a meeting or get-together; a party or social function while offertory is an anthem formerly sung as part of the Roman Catholic Mass or during the corresponding part of the Anglican Communion.As a verb gathering
is present continuous of gather; collecting or bringing together.gathering
English
(wikipedia gathering)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.
- A gathering of fruit.
- This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), equivalent to .Verb
(head)- She enjoyed gathering wildflowers.
Derived terms
*offertory
English
(wikipedia offertory)Noun
(offertories)- But alderbest he sang an offertory : / For well he wiste, when that song was sung, / He muste preach […].
- There was an impressive musical program, conducted by Sheldon Smeeth, educational director of the Y.M.C.A., who also sang the offertory .
- Before a month had passed the congregation at the evening service at St. Asaph's Church was so slender that the offertory , as Mr. Furlong senior himself calculated, was scarcely sufficient to pay the overhead charge of collecting it.
- I sat through the sermon, and the offertory , and the recessional.
- Even the coins in the offertory were accredited with magical value; there were numerous popular superstitions about the magical value of communion silver as a cure for illness or a lucky charm against danger.