(1649–1705), English clergyman and conspirator, remembered as the fabricator of the Popish Plot. Convicted of perjury in 1685, Oates was imprisoned in the same year, but subsequently released and granted a pension.
Definition of Oates, Titus in US English:
Oates, Titus
proper nounōtsˈoʊts
(1649–1705), English clergyman and conspirator. He is known as the fabricator of the Popish Plot in 1678.