Definition of oblate Oblate

/ɑblejˈt/ - [ableyt] - ob•late

We found 13 definitions of oblate from 6 different sources.

What does oblate mean?

Noun Plural: oblates
oblate - a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life
Adjective oblate, oblater, oblatest
oblate - having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles
		pumpkin-shaped
		rounded curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders"

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oblate (Noun)
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.
oblate (Noun)
A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.
oblate (Adjective)
Flattened or depressed at the poles.

oblate (a.)
Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.
oblate (a.)
Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n.
oblate (a.)
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.
oblate (a.)
One of the Oblati.

oblate
ob-lāt′, n. a secular person devoted to a monastery, but not under its vows, esp. one of the Oblate Fathers or Oblate Sisters: one dedicated to a religious order from childhood, or who takes the cowl in anticipation of death: a loaf of altar-bread before its consecration.—n. Oblā′tion, act of offering: anything offered in worship or sacred service, esp. a eucharistic offering: an offering generally.—Great oblation, the solemn offering or presentation in memorial before God of the consecrated elements, as sacramentally the body and blood of Christ; Lesser oblation, the offertory. [L. oblatus, offered up.]
oblate
ob-lāt′, adj. flattened at opposite sides or poles: shaped like an orange.—ns. Oblate′ness, flatness at the poles; Oblate′-spher′oid, a spherical body flattened at the poles. [L. oblatus, pa.p. of offerre, to offer—ob, against, ferre, to bring.]

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