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Definition of Oblatory
1. oblation [adj] - See also: oblation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oblatory
Literary usage of Oblatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1864)
"Upon this point L'Estrange says—" Plain it is that our Church intended a double
offering, one eleemosynary, alms for the poor ; another, oblatory, ..."
2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1847)
"... which he makes to commence with the ' Sursum Corda,' thus excluding what we
call the Prayer for the Church militant from the oblatory action. ..."
3. A History of the Nonjurors: Their Controversies and Writings: with Remarks by Thomas Lathbury (1845)
"A fourth thing is specified, namely, the Restoration of the oblatory Prayer, ...
Collier's view of this prayer is thus stated : " The oblatory Prayer goes ..."
4. The Church and the World: Essays on Questions of the Day by Orby Shipley (1866)
"The Proper and Daily Prefaces which formerly concluded the oblatory division of
the Liturgy, and naturally came immediately before, as a preface to the ..."
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