Crossword clues for oblate
oblate
- Like earth, flattened at the poles
- Religious person giving description of our earthy sphere
- Monastery resident
- Not perfectly round
- Leaf shape
- Flat at the poles
- Pumpkin shaped
- Like Earth
- Certain monastery resident
- Squished at the poles
- Shaped like a clementine
- Servant of God
- Person dedicated to religious life
- Monastic auxiliary
- Like some spheroids
- Like a slightly deflated sphere, perhaps
- Flattened, like the Earth
- Flattened at the ends
- ___ spheroid (football, to sports writers)
- Not quite spherical
- Flattened at the poles
- Layperson in a monastery
- Squeezed at the ends, as leaves
- Like M&M's
- Depressed at the poles
- Shaped like Skittles
- Shaped like Saturn
- Layman in a monastery
- Like the Earth's shape
- One dedicated to the religious life
- Like a flattened ball
- Child dedicated to religious life
- Depressed, in a way
- Secular person
- Shaped like a football
- Earth-shaped
- Shaped like the earth, but able to change
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oblate \Ob*late"\, a. [L. oblatus, used as p. p. of offerre to bring forward, offer, dedicate; ob (see Ob-) + latus borne, for tlatus. See Tolerate.]
(Geom.) Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.
-
Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n.
Oblate ellipsoid or Oblate spheroid (Geom.), a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis; an oblatum. Contrasted with prolate spheroid. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.
Oblate \Ob*late"\, n. [From Oblate, a.] (R. C. Ch.)
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.
One of the Oblati.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"person devoted to religious work," 1756, from Medieval Latin oblatus, noun use of Latin oblatus, variant past participle of offerre "to offer, to bring before," from ob- (see ob-) + latus "carried, borne" (used as suppletive past participle of ferre "to bear"), from *tlatos, from PIE root *tele- "to bear, carry" (see extol).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context Roman Catholic Church English) A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community. 2 A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house. Etymology 2
-
flatten or depressed at the poles. Etymology 3
v
To offer as either a gift or an oblation
WordNet
adj. having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles [syn: pumpkin-shaped] [ant: prolate]
n. a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life
Wikipedia
An oblate in Christian monasticism (especially Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Methodist) is a person who is specifically dedicated to God or to God's service. Currently, oblate has two meanings:
- Oblates are individuals, either laypersons or clergy, normally living in general society, who, while not professed monks or nuns, have individually affiliated themselves with a monastic community of their choice. They make a formal, private promise (annually renewable or for life, depending on the monastery with which they are affiliated) to follow the Rule of the Order in their private life as closely as their individual circumstances and prior commitments permit. Such oblates do not constitute a separate religious order as such, but are considered an extended part of the monastic community, and as such, Benedictine oblates also often have the letters OblSB or ObSB after their names on documents. They are comparable to the tertiaries associated with the various Orders of friars.
- "Oblate" is also used in the official name of some religious institutes as an indication of their sense of dedication.
Usage examples of "oblate".
Brother Michael was an oblate up at the community of Nil-Vanity in the Sierras.
Perhaps her species used the crest of iridescent feathers along her cranial ridge for nonverbal signals: right now, as he stared, feathers near the rounded rear of her oblate skull lifted and turned so that their color shifted from starlight silver to red as a blaster bolt.
Vergere flattened her crest against her oblate skull, and there was no trace of cheer in her eyes.
He was peering at the oblate sun which, having quit its low cloud cover, was rising with the lassitude of age.
Clouds were piling up to the west, darkening the lowering sun, turning it from orange to deep crimson, a half-seen oblate, bloated and veiled by the oncoming weather.
I was accepted into the abbey, just as if I had been an ordinary boy oblate given by his parents to be raised in holy orders, and a village woman was recruited to be my wet nurse until I was of an age for weaning.
In addition to making those numerous observances, I, as an oblate and postulant, had to include time for religious instruction and secular education as well.
In the same year four brothers died in the pestilence, namely, Brother Arnold Droem, a Convert, Goswin Witte, a Clerk and Oblate, Dirk Mastebroick, a Donate, Hermann Sutor, a Novice.
James the Apostle, died Andrew, son of Hermann, of Sichele, a faithful and devout Laic of our House and an Oblate to God.
He was a faithful Laic and an Oblate, and when he finished his course was seventy years of age.
In his old age he left his friends and acquaintance, following his son Gerlac, who was a faithful Oblate, and he lived in our House for nearly eleven years before his death.
In the year of the Lord 1467, on the third day of the month of March, and before Compline, died Hysbrand, our tailor, a Resignate and Oblate, who was born in Amsterdam, a town of Holland.
He was a Resignate and an Oblate, who had long discharged many hard tasks as a servant of our House, for he abode with us for near of forty-four years, and at length he departed in peace, being seventy-two years old, and he was laid in the burying-place of the Laics.
In the same year, on the night of the Assumption of the Blessed and Glorious Virgin Mary, and after the Te Deum had been sung, died the devout Laic, Nicholas Bodiken, who was an Oblate of our House.
In the year of the Lord 1450, Peter de Mera, Chamberlain to our Lord Eugenius IV, obtained a letter granting Indulgence to our House, namely, to the Prior, the Brothers, the Converts, the Donates, and the Oblates in the House on Mount St.