Definition of "offertories" [offertories]

• Plural form of offertory. (noun)

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• "Graduals contained the choral parts of the Mass, arranged according to the Temporale, the Sanctorale, and then the Common of the Saints. 93 They included graduals (responses and versicles to the Epistle readings of the Mass), introits (the first sung elements of the Mass), tracts, alleluias, offertories, and communions. 94 Sometimes they also gave the sequences (extended melodies sung by a soloist or the choir)."
• "But they were so willing to martyr *her* economic autonomy during the marriage with their offertories on the virtues of stay at home motherhood, that this position starks in contrast - almost as if the kids were never the primary concern to begin with."
• "The bowls and vessels were of silver and gold and set with precious stones - they had been taken from the temple offertories."