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oblate

pyöreä, navoilta litistynyt, kurpitsanmuotoinen, uskonnollinen henkilö, pyhitetty, oblaatti.

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Englannin sanakirja

oblate englanniksi

1. puhekieltä 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.

2. A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.

3. 2007, The Venerable Bede started as an oblate at St Paul's, Jarrow, but by the time of his death in 735 was surely the most learned man in Europe. — Tom Shippey, ‘I Lerne Song’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 19

4. flatten Flattened or depressed at the poles.

The Earth is an oblate spheroid.

5. 1922, Why should I not speak to him or to any human being who walks upright upon this oblate orange? — James Joyce, Ulysses

6. 1997, ‘ ’Tis prolate, still,’ with a long dejected Geordie O. ‘Isn’t it…?’ ‘I’m an Astronomer,– trust me, ’tis gone well to oblate.’ — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

7. To offer as either a gift or an oblation

8. (feminine plural of)

9. (inflection of)

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