Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Given or dedicated in fulfillment of a vow or pledge.
- adjective Expressing or symbolizing a wish, desire, or vow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Offered, contributed, or consecrated in accordance with a vow: as, a votive picture.
- Observed, practised, or done in consequence of a vow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted
- adjective a medal struck in grateful commemoration of some auspicious event.
- adjective an offering in fulfillment of a religious vow, as of one's person or property.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
dedicated orgiven infulfillment of avow orpledge - adjective this sense?) of, expressing or symbolizing a vow; and by extension a thick cylindrical candle
- noun music a
hymn orchant dedicated to a particularsaint , or to theVirgin Mary
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective dedicated in fulfillment of a vow
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word votive.
Examples
-
Mr. GOUREVITCH: That is a votive object from the Narob Bwea church; in other words, a votive statute of a church figure that would have been at the back of this Catholic church.
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda 1998
-
Plays given in fulfilment of vows thus made were called votive games.
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
-
Book III (Prayers and the Canon for Sundays) contains a great number of Masses marked simply "For Sunday" (i.e. any Sunday), the Canon of the Mass, what we should call votive Masses (e.g. for travellers, in time of trouble, for kings, and so on), Masses for the Dead, some blessings
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
-
This is what is called a votive picture, which means a picture made in the fulfilment of a vow, in gratitude for some signal blessing or to turn away some danger.
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875
-
The coffin was received beneath what was called a votive monument, -- a column one hundred feet in height, with an immense gilded globe upon the top, surmounted by a gilded eagle twenty feet high.
France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863
-
This nearika -- Huichol yarnwork "votive" painting -- depicts the sacred blue deer, who also appear as shamans on eac side of the composition.
-
Fibe beautiful nearika -- Huichol beadwork and yarnwork "votive" paintings.
Fibe beautiful nearika -- Huichol beadwork and yarnwork "votive" paintings. © Kinich Ramirez, 2006 2006
-
I think of vacil "votive", for example, which also acts just as nebulously by being found as a noun on its own or postposed to other nouns like an adjective.
-
We know that vacil means "votive", but what's the rest?
-
I likewise inspected a very large glass vase, a lamp also found at Gozo, and a kind of votive disk in stone, with a bas relief, representing, on one of the sides, a sphinx, with a paw placed on the head of a ram.
A Monumental Mandate 2004
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.