oblate noun. ['ɒbleɪt] Also (earlier) oblat. L17.
[French oblat from medieval Latin oblatus use as noun of pa. pple of Latin offerre OFFER verb. Cf. OBLEY.]
A person dedicated to monastic or religious life or work; spec. (a) Hist. a child offered by his or her parents to a monastery and placed there to be brought up; (b) a lay person attached to a religious community without having taken vows; (c) a member of any of various congregations of secular priests or communities of women devoted to some special work.
Oblate of Mary Immaculate, Oblate of St Charles Borromeo, etc.

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oblate verb trans.rare. M16-L19.
[from Latin oblat-: see OBLATION, -ATE³.]
Offer, esp. as an oblation.

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oblate adjective. ['ɒbleɪt, ɒ'bleɪt] E18.
[mod. Latin oblatus, from ob- OB- + -latus, after Latin prolatus PROLATE adjective.]
Flattened at the poles; designating a spheroid produced by the revolution of an ellipse about its shorter axis. Opp. prolate.

■ oblately adverb M18.

■ oblateness noun L18.

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