Crossword clues for oblation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oblation \Ob*la"tion\, n. [L. oblatio: cf. F. oblation. See Oblate.]
The act of offering, or of making an offering.
--Locke.-
Anything offered or presented in worship or sacred service; an offering; a sacrifice.
A peculiar . . . oblation given to God.
--Jer. Taylor.A pin was the usual oblation.
--Sir. W. Scott. A gift or contribution made to a church, as for the expenses of the eucharist, or for the support of the clergy and the poor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Old French oblacion "offering, pious donation" and directly from Latin oblationem (nominative oblatio) "an offering, presenting, gift," in Late Latin "sacrifice," from Latin oblatus (see oblate (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. The offering of bread and wine at the eucharist
WordNet
n. the act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity; "oblations for aid to the poor" [syn: offering]
the act of offering the bread and wine of the Eucharist [syn: religious offering]
Wikipedia
Oblation, meaning an offering ( Late Latin oblatio, from offerre, oblatum, to offer), is a term used, particularly in ecclesiastical use, for a solemn offering or presentation to God.
Oblation is legal term that describes the voluntary transfer of a legal obligation or a title to a property.
In medieval times in the Holy Roman Empire, an oblatio feudi or Lehnsauftragung meant a transfer of property, freely held by its owner, such as a castle or lordship, to another lord, in order to receive it back from that lord as a fief. In doing so, the liege lord acquired the full right of ownership.
A similar term was the oblatio litis, whereby someone took over a legal dispute as the defendant, without being the actual defendant.
Usage examples of "oblation".
As elsewhere in Europe, there was a deep craving to detemporalize the Church and clear the way to God of all the money and fees and donations and oblations that cluttered it.
As to the unity of this sacrifice, it was foreshadowed in the Law in that, once a year, the high-priest of the Law entered into the Holies, with a solemn oblation of blood, as set down, Lev.
But it was always possible for independent agencies to grow up under the protection of another part of the Magisterium, and the Oblation Board, which the Librarian had referred to, was one of these.
Coulter is not a priest, of course, but she is a powerful agent of the Magisterium, and it was she who set up the Oblation Board and persuaded the Church to pay for Bolvangar, because of her interest in Dust.
Bloodshed through surrogate sacrifices, be they the mannequins burned on the Pont Neuf, prize white doves strangled in their cots or more inanimate targets like violently defaced coats of arms on carriages or church pews, all performed the same symbolic function: an oblation for freedom.
He had flung up his white-sleeved arms in priestlike oblation above his head.
Wednesday, the last day of April, in the 7th year of King Henry the Fifth, by William Sevenok, the Mayor, and the Aldermen of London, it was ordered and established that no vadlet, or other sergeant of the Mayor, Sheriffs, or City, should in future beg or require of any person, of any rank, degree, or condition whatsoever, any moneys, under colour of an oblation, or in any other way, on pain of losing his office.
And that they wished to erect a house of worship in their midst, in which they might do their oblation to the Great Spirit, and that if they embraced the gospel they would have annuities from the government, to all of which the simple people of the forest made their assent.
Sophia itself, the earthly heaven, the second firmament, the vehicle of the cherubim, the throne of the glory of God, ^71 was despoiled of the oblation of ages.
But it was alleged, that, as no part of the animal was made a burnt-offering, as no altar was provided to receive the blood, and as the previous oblation of salt cakes, and the concluding ceremony of libations, were carefully omitted, these festal meetings did not involve the guests in the guilt, or penalty, of an illegal sacrifice.
Since his parents are incapable of providing for him, he devours them as soon as he is born, and then feeds on the oblations of clarified butter poured into his mouths of devouring flame.
But as the wants and expenses of the church increased with her prosperity, the ecclesiastical order was still supported and enriched by the voluntary oblations of the faithful.
An interesting trace of an old use in this matter of oblations is found in the Queen’s Coronation Service.
After other oblations had been offered, the Queen knelt before the Archbishop and presented to him "oblations"
It would appear from the following account of early Christian worship, that in the time of Justin Martyr the oblations were collected after the reception of the Lord’s Supper.