offer

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This offer was accepted, and [with their ship] thus laden, they held away to Ericsfirth, and sailed until they arrived at Brattahlid.

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  1. transitive verb To present for acceptance or rejection; proffer: offered me a drink.
  2. transitive verb To put forward for consideration; propose: offer an opinion.
  3. transitive verb To present in order to meet a need or satisfy a requirement: offered new statistics in order to facilitate the decision-making process.

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  • "He went not into such matters, leaving these to be talked over after it had been settled whether his offer should be accepted or not. —  Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS
  • But, admit that the offer was accepted, which in my opinion is blasphemy, is the cry of a rabble at a public execution to bind a nation? —  Tancred Or, The New Crusade
  • This offer was accepted. —  London and the Kingdom - Volume I
  • The result of this offer was the reprinting of De Malo Medendi_, and subsequently of the tract on Judicial Astrology, and of the treatise De Consolatione_; the Book of the Great Art_, the treatises De Sapientia and De Immortalitate Animorum were published in the first instance by these same patrons from the Nuremberg press But Cardan, while he was hard at work on his Arithmetic, had not forgotten a certain report which had caused no slight stir in the world of Mathematics some three years before the issue of his book on Arithmetic, an episode which may be most fittingly told in his own words. —  Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study
  • On reaching the Turco lines, when we offered to give these wounded a further lift of some miles, the offer was accepted with cringing gratitude. —  The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad
 

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plan ·  gift ·  promise ·  service ·  price ·  need ·  account ·  proposal ·  return ·  act ·  sale ·  request

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offer:   offering ·  offered ·  offers
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English offren, from Old English offrian, to present in worship, and from Old French offrir, to propose, present, both from Latin offerre, to present, offer : ob-, to; see ob- + ferre, to bring; see bher-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English offren, from Anglo-Saxon offrian = Old Saxon offron, offran = OFries. offaria, offria = D. Middle Low German offeren = Old High German opfarōn, offarōn, Middle High German opfern, ophern, German opfern = Icelandic Swedish offra = Danish ofre, offer (in earliest Teutonic use ‘offer as a sacrifice,’ the ecclesiastical use of the L. offerre in this sense explaining its early appearance in Teutonic), = Old French (also F.) offrir = Provencal offrir, ufrir = Italian offerire, offerere, offerare (cf. Spanish ofrecer = Portuguese offerecer), from Latin offerre, Middle Latin also offerare, bring before, present, offer, from ob, before, + ferre = English bear. Cf. confer, defer, proffer, differ, prefer, refer, etc.
  2. = OFries. offer = Dutch offer = Middle Low German offer = Old High German opfar, opphar, offar, ophar, opfer, opher, Middle High German opfer, German opfer = Icelandic offr = Swedish Danish offer; from the verb.
 

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