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‖ oblat Obs.
[F., ad. L. oblāt-us.]
= oblate n.1; also, a disabled soldier placed by the king in a monastery to be there maintained.
[1656Blount Glossogr., Oblat (Fr.), a Souldier, who, grown impotent or maimed in Service, hath maintenance or the benefit of a Monks place assigned him in an Abbey; Also the means or place of a Monk, or such Souldier.] 1693tr. Emilianne's Hist. Monast. Ord. xvii. 179 These Oblats have no Votes in the Chapter. 1706Phillips, Oblats of St. Jerom, a Congregation of Secular Priests in Italy, founded by St. Charles Borromeo. So1721–in Bailey. |