objurgation (objergashon)

[ F.objurga tion =It. objurgazione, If there be no true liberty, but all things come to pa by inevitable nece ity, then what are all interrogations, objurgations , and reprehensions, and expostulations? Abp. Bramhall, Against Hobbes, He will try to soothe him, and win him, if he can, to reconsider and retract so grievous an objurgation. R. Choate , Addre es, p. 405. objurgatory (ob-jėr'gā-to-ri), a. [= F.objurga toire, L. objurgator i us, chiding, Now Letters, though they be capable of any Subject, yet commonly they are either Narratory, Objurgatory , Consolatory, Monitory, or Congratulatory. Howell , Letters, I. i. 1. oblanceolate (ob-lan'sē-ō-lāt), a . [ ob- + lan ceolate .] In bot . , shaped like a lance-point reversed that is, having the tapering point next the leafstalk: said of certain leaves. See lan ceolate . oblate (ob-lāt'), v. t.; pret. and pp. oblated, ppr. oblating. [L. oblatus, pp. of obferre, offerre, present, offer, devote: see offer.] 1. To offer; present; propose. Both garrisons and the inhabit antes, oppre ed with much penurye and extreme famyne, were coacted to render the cytie vpon reasonable conditions to them by the Frenche Kyng sent and oblated. Hall , Hen. VI., an. 31. 2. To offer as an oblation; devote to the service of God or of the church. Rev. O. Shipley . oblate (ob-lat' or ob'lāt), n. [1. = F. oblat = Sp. Pg. It. oblato, Sp. oblea ), a wafer (see oble ), = Sp. Pg. oblada, an offering of IMG:content-1565.png:[blocks in formation] bread, oblata, an offering, = It. oblata, One Master Guccio and his wife, Mina, who had given themselves as oblates , with all their property, to the church [at Siena), devoting themselves and their means to the advance of the work. C. E. Norton, Church-building in Middle Ages, p. 151. (b) A child dedicated by his or her parents to a monastic life, and therefore held in monastic discipline and domicile. Born of humble parents, who offered him [Suger], in his early youth, as an oblate at the altar of St. Denis, he had been bred in the schools of the abbey. Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 768. (c) One who a umed the cowl in immediate anticipation of death. (d) One of a congregation of secular priests who do not bind themselves by monastic vows. The congregation of the Oblates of St. Charles or Oblates of the Ble ed Virgin and St. Ambrose was founded in the diocese of Milan in the sixteenth century by St. Charles Borromeo; that of the Oblates of Italy was founded at Turin in 1816; and that of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, founded in the south of France in 1815, was brought into the United States in 1848. (e) One of a community of women engaged in religious and charitable work. Such communities are the oblates found. ed by St. Francesca of Rome about 1433, and the Oblate Sis ters of Providence, a sisterhood of colored women founded at Baltimore in 1825 for the education and the amelioration of the condition of colored women. 2. Eccles., a loaf of unconsecrated bread prepared for use at the celebration of the eucharist; altar-bread. From the earliest times of which we have distinct information, oblates have been circular in form, of moderate thickne , and marked with a cro or cro es. In the Western Church they are unleavened, much reduced in size, and commonly known as wafers, or, especially after consecration, as hosts. In the Anglican Church the use of leavened bread in loaves of ordinary size and form was permitted at the Reformation, and became the prevalent though not exclusive use. The Greek Church uses a circular oblate of leavened bread, in the center of which is a square projection called the Holy Lamb. This projecting part alone is consecrated, and the remainder serves for the an tid or on. - Oblate roll, in Eng. hist., the account kept in the exchequer, particularly in the reigns of John and Henry III., of old debts due to the king and of gifts made to him.