OPage 11
- English Word Oblata Definition of Oblatum
- English Word Oblate Definition One of the Oblati.
- English Word Oblate Definition One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates.
- English Word Oblate Definition Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n.
- English Word Oblate Definition Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.
- English Word Oblateness Definition The quality or state of being oblate.
- English Word Oblati Definition Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic state.
- English Word Oblati Definition A class of persons, especially in the Middle Ages, who offered themselves and their property to a monastery.
- English Word Oblation Definition The act of offering, or of making an offering.
- English Word Oblation Definition A gift or contribution made to a church, as for the expenses of the eucharist, or for the support of the clergy and the poor.
- English Word Oblation Definition Anything offered or presented in worship or sacred service; an offering; a sacrifice.
- English Word Oblationer Definition One who makes an offering as an act worship or reverence.
- English Word Oblatrate Definition To bark or snarl, as a dog.
- English Word Oblatration Definition The act of oblatrating; a barking or snarling.
- English Word Oblatum Definition An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.
- English Word Oblectate Definition To delight; to please greatly.
- English Word Oblectation Definition The act of pleasing highly; the state of being greatly pleased; delight.
- English Word Obligable Definition Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy.
- English Word Obligate Definition To bind or firmly hold to an act; to compel; to constrain; to bind to any act of duty or courtesy by a formal pledge.
- English Word Obligate Definition To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive.