CORBAN, n. L. G., a wicker basket.
1. In Jewish antiquity, an offering which had life an animal offered to God in opposition to the mincha, which was an offering without life.
It is a gift, corban, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me that is, I have devoted that to God which you ask of me, and it is no longer mine to give.
2. An alms-basket a vessel to receive gifts of charity a gift an alms a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.
3. Among Mohammedans, a ceremony performed at the foot of mount Arrarat in Arabia, near Mecca. It consists in killing the number of sheep, and distributing them among the poor.
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