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Definition of Oblate
1. Adjective. Having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles.
2. Noun. A lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life.
Definition of Oblate
1. a. Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.
2. n. 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.
Definition of Oblate
1. Noun. (qualifier Roman Catholic Church) 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. ¹
2. Noun. A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house. ¹
3. Adjective. Flattened or depressed at the poles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oblate
1. a layman residing in a monastery [n -S]
Medical Definition of Oblate
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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.
Origin: From Oblate.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Oblate
Literary usage of Oblate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Apple Orchard: A Sketch of the Practice of Apple Growing in by Frank Albert Waugh (1908)
"Medium oblate, yellow green, poor, very late. A late A promising recent introduction.
... Large, oblate, conic, yellow red striped, very good, medium late. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"We must not forget to mention the Little Servante of Mary Immaculate of the
Ruthenian Rite, the Daughters of the Cross, and the oblate Missionaries of the ..."
3. The Mechanic's Assistant: A Thorough Practical Treatise on Mensuration and by D. M. Knapen (1849)
"oblate SPHEROID. An oblate spheroid is a solid generated by the revolution of
... An oblate spheroid is equal to two-thirds of a cylinder, whose diameter is ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1863)
"The author states that he has found it practicable to project a body that, instead
of being prolate, is more or less oblate,—that, instead of having helical ..."
5. A Mathematical Solution Book Containing Systematic Solutions to Many of the by Benjamin Franklin Finkel (1888)
"THE oblate SPHEROID. 1. An oblate Spheroid is the spheroid formed by revolving
... I. What is the volume of an oblate spheroid, whose transverse diameter is ..."
6. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1860)
"Fruit large, oblate, slightly angular. Skin light yellow, striped, splashed, and
marbled with crimson, and thickly sprinkled with tight brown dots. ..."
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