单词 | oblate |
释义 | oblaten.1adj.2 Roman Catholic Church. A. n.1 A person dedicated to monastic or religious life or work, spec. a member of an order which does not require solemn vows; (also) a lay person who is attached to a religious house, usually observing the rule but not professing the vows, or one who observes part of the rule of a particular religious order while remaining in the secular world (cf. tertiary adj. 1); (hence) (also) a child dedicated by his or her parents to a religious house and placed there to be brought up (now historical). Frequently in plural in the names of particular congregations, as Oblates of Mary Immaculate. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay brother or sister > [noun] conversec1500 convert1577 oblat1656 oblate1693 donate1804 1693 A. Gavin Short Hist. Monastical Orders xvii. 179 These Oblats have no Votes in the Chapter, and are only the Servants of the others. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Oblats of St. Jerom, a Congregation of Secular Priests in Italy, founded by St. Charles Borromeo. 1756 A. Butler Lives Saints I. 425 He permitted her [sc. St Frances of Rome]..to found a monastery of nuns, called Oblates. 1756 A. Butler Lives Saints I. 426 These Oblates make no solemn vows, only a promise of obedience to the mother-president. 1855 G. C. Fullerton Life St. Frances of Rome xi. 101 She invited all the Oblates to her house. 1865 Morning Star 9 May Dr. Manning..was also chief of an order called the Oblates of St. Charles Borromeo. 1879 R. Cooke (title) Sketches of the life of Mgr. de Mazenod, bishop of Marseilles, and founder of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. 1889 C. E. Norton 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. 1958 R. Liddell Morea ii. ii. 56 The orphan Theodore, a sort of oblate or postulant..in a secular suit, but with bobbed hair and a monastic black cap. 1986 Universe 20 June 33/2 The Oblates of Mary Immaculate are a congregation of priests and brothers especially called to preach the Gospel to the poor. B. adj.2 Frequently with capital initial. Designating a person who is an oblate; of or belonging to an order of oblates. Chiefly in Oblate Father. ΚΠ 1863 H. E. Manning Serm. Eccl. Subj. ix. 321 I have seen this system in vigorous action in the Church of the Oblate Fathers, at Rhò. 1896 Dict. National Biogr. at Rawes, Henry Augustus He was appointed prefect of studies in St. Charles's College in 1870; was created D.D. by Pius IX in 1875; and was elected superior of the Oblate Fathers at Bayswater in 1879. 1974 D. Damas in J. Billard World of Amer. Indian 77 Father Guy Mary-Rousseliere, an Oblate missionary in northeastern Canada most of his adult life. 1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 June 43/2 Up to the twelfth century, children destined for the monastic life were commonly placed, at seven or thereabouts, in a monastery as ‘oblate children’, dedicated to God by their parents. 1995 Canad. Hist. Rev. June 270 The works of the new community focused more on education..and the close affiliation of the sisters with the Oblate Fathers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Oblaten.2 historical. Oblate Roll n. the rolled records of the oblata; = Oblata Roll n. at oblata n.1; see also fine roll n. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > national or public debt > account of Exannual Roll1650 Oblata Roll1835 Oblate Roll1875 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) I. xiii. 598 The Pipe Rolls of Henry II are supplemented under John by Oblate, Liberate, and Mise Rolls. 1887 Dict. National Biogr. at Courci, John de The original authorities for the subject are the Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Charter Rolls, Oblate and Fine Rolls,..and Chancellor's Rolls (Record Commission Calendars). 1950 R. S. Hoyt Royal Demesne in Eng. Constit. Hist. 149 From the Oblate Rolls of John, for example, it may be learned that [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). oblateadj.1 Of a spheroid: flattened at the poles, as a spheroid formed by the revolution of an ellipse about its shorter axis. Of a planet or other object: having this form. Contrasted with prolate. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > spherical or globular > spheroidal > flattened at poles oblate1705 1705 G. Cheyne Philos. Princ. Nat. Relig. i. 57 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. 1716 Bodl. MS Rawl. D. 414 15 Upon Sr I. N.'s Principles it is necessary that the Earth should be an oblate spheroid. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 33 The earth..in its figure, which, from being round, was now become oblate. 1777 T. Campbell Philos. Surv. S. Ireland i. 10 An oblate dome. 1831 D. Brewster Life I. Newton xi. 163 The figure of the earth is an oblate spheroid. 1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. II ii. 1026 A large oblate lens-shaped cornea. 1931 Antiquity 5 428 The faience beads include all the simple forms such as oblate, spherical..bicone..and cylindrical. 1984 M. Dittrick & D. Dittrick No Uncertain Terms 100 Because our less-than-perfect world is slightly flattened on top and bottom (an oblate spheroid, should anyone ever ask), a minute of latitude doesn't measure the same at the equator..as it does at the poles. 1989 J. Allman Principles iii. 8 What one describes already rolled to one side of a wicker basket containing pears and soft oranges turning brown and oblate. 1999 New Scientist 3 July 43/3 No one completely understands K-mixing states, but Collins suspects they occur when..a nucleus can have two different shapes—prolate like a cigar or oblate like a pancake—and the nucleus spends time changing between prolate and oblate. Derivatives ˈoblately adv. in the manner of an oblate spheroid. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adverb] > spherically > spheroidally > specific ovally1659 ovenwisec1720 oblately1753 ovatedly1822 ovately1822 prolately1874 1753 N. Torriano Compendium Obstetricii 16 The Womb..becomes above the Neck oblately [printed ablately] spheroidical. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. 417/2 Kidney-shaped, crescentic with the ends rounded; very oblately cordate. 1974 Smithsonian Contrib. Earth Sci. No. 13. 22/2 Light, large, nonspherically (oblately) shaped particles are therefore concentrated in the d-division. ˈoblateness n. the quality or fact of being oblate; the degree of this. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity > spheroidicity > spheroid > condition of being flattened at poles oblateness1787 1787 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 202 Seven ellipsoids of different degrees of oblateness. 1871 J. A. S. Rollwyn Astron. Simplified xx. 235 Centrifugal force would satisfactorily explain this spheroidal oblateness. 1954 C. Payne-Gaposchkin Introd. Astron. (1956) ii. 25 If a is the diameter measured though the equator, and b that measured through the poles, the oblateness is expressed by (a−b)/a. 1996 Icarus 123 503/1 We consider the motions of circumplanetary objects perturbed simultaneously by solar gravity, radiation pressure, planetary oblateness, and electromagnetic forces. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). oblatev. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > offer or action of offering > offer [verb (transitive)] i-bedea800 bidOE make?a1160 forthc1200 bihedec1275 proffera1325 yielda1382 dressc1384 to serve fortha1393 dight1393 pretend1398 nurnc1400 offerc1425 profita1450 tent1459 tend1475 exhibit1490 propine1512 presentc1515 oblate1548 pretence1548 defer?1551 to hold forth1560 prefer1567 delatea1575 to give forth1584 tender1587 oppose1598 to hold out1611 shore1787 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxvjv To render the citie vpon reasonable condicions, to them by the French kyng sent and oblated. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 3 v Ane goldin Ball, the quhilk himself oblait To Venus. 2. transitive. To offer as an oblation to the Church or to God. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > sacrifice [verb (transitive)] offereOE teemc1275 sacrea1325 sacrify1390 sacrificea1400 presentc1425 exhibit1490 immolate1548 immole1610 shrine?1611 victim1671 victimize1853 oblate1872 1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms at 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. 1952 D. M. Jones Anathemata i. 62 Those who put on their coats to oblate the things set apart in an older Great Cold. 1983 J. M. Wallace-Hadrill Frankish Church xv. 363 He further demanded the return of family-property oblated in his name. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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