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▪ I. oblate, n.1|ˈɒbleɪt, ɒˈbleɪt|
[ad. med.L. oblāt-us, n. use of pa. pple. of L. offerre to offer.]
A person devoted to a monastery or to religious work.
spec. a. A child dedicated by his or her parents to a monastic life and placed in a monastery to be trained. b. One who has devoted himself and his property to the service of a monastery in which he lives as a lay brother. c. A member of a congregation of secular priests or a community of women devoted to some special work, as Oblate of St. Charles, a priest of the order of St. Charles Borromeo, etc. Also attrib., as Oblate Father.
1864(title) The Complete Works of St. John of the Cross... Edited by the Oblate Fathers of Saint Charles. 1865Morn. Star 9 May, Dr. Manning..was also chief of an order called the Oblates of St. Charles Borromeo. 1880C. E. Norton Church-build. Mid. Ages 151 One Master Guccio and his wife, Mina, who had given themselves as ‘oblates’, with all their property to the church [at Siena]. 1889― in Harper's Mag. Oct. 768/2 Born of humble parents, who offered him in his early youth, as an oblate at the altar of St.-Denis, he had been bred in the schools of the abbey.
▪ II. oblate, n.2|ˈɒbleɪt|
[ad. L. oblāta: see above.]
attrib. in oblate roll, an exchequer roll containing a record of the oblata.
1875Stubbs Const. Hist. I. xiii. 598 The Pipe Rolls of Henry II are supplemented under John by Oblate, Liberate, and Mise Rolls.
▪ III. oblate, a. Geom.|ɒˈbleɪt, ˈɒbleɪt|
[ad. med. or mod.L. oblātus, f. ob- (ob- 1 b or ? 2) + lātus in L. prōlātus lengthened out.]
Flattened at the poles: said of a spheroid produced by the revolution of an ellipse about its shorter axis. Opposed to prolate.
1705Cheyne Phil. Princ. Relig. i. (1715) 56 By this Gravitation, Bodies on this Globe will press towards its Center, tho' not exactly thither neither, by reason of the oblate spheroidical Figure of the Earth. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) I. 33 The earth..in its figure, which, from being round, was now become oblate. 1778Phil. Surv. S. Irel. 10 An oblate dome. 1831Brewster Newton (1855) I. xii. 324 The figure of the earth is an oblate spheroid. 1852Dana Crust. ii. 1026 A large oblate lens-shaped cornea.
Hence oblately adv., in an oblate manner; oblateness, the quality or fact of being oblate.
1753N. Torriano Midwifry 16 The Womb..becomes above the Neck oblately [printed ablately] spheroidical. 1787Roy in Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 202 Seven ellipsoids of different degrees of oblateness. 1871Rollwyn Astron. Simpl. xx. 235 Centrifugal force would satisfactorily explain this spheroidal oblateness. 1880Gray Struct. Bot. (ed. 6) 417/2 Kidney-shaped, crescentic with the ends rounded; very oblately cordate.
▪ IV. † oˈblate, v. Obs. rare.
Pa. tense and pple. oblated; also 6 Sc. oblait.
[f. L. oblāt-, ppl. stem of offerre to offer; cf. refer, relate.]
trans. To offer.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 166 b, To render the citie upon reasonable condicions, to them by the French kyng sent and oblated. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus i. 150 Ane goldin Ball, the quhilk himself oblait To Venus.
b. To offer as an oblation.
1872O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms s.v. Oblation, According to the Roman use, the elements were separately oblated, which in England was followed by York, whilst the other two uses, of Sarum and Hereford, oblated both together. |