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  • noun Plural form of oblate.

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  • Lay people who are formally associated with a monastery are called oblates, and this monastery has a strong group of oblates.

    Archive 2009-05-01 e 2009

  • Lay people who are formally associated with a monastery are called oblates, and this monastery has a strong group of oblates.

    Breakfast e 2009

  • Not for them are the pyrotechnics of crisp-baked oblates and frozen foie gras.

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • Not for them are the pyrotechnics of crisp-baked oblates and frozen foie gras.

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • And those children were joined by girls who appear to have entered the houses as child oblates.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Gilbert the younger, a little bewildered but oblivious of misfortune, played with the child oblates and the two young pupils, and was tenderly shepherded by Brother Paul, the master of the children.

    A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

  • It is probable also that many of those who could not be promoted to the third order or who were special benefactors of the first order received the habit of the order or a large scapular similar to that of the oblates, which they might wear when dying and in which they might be buried.

    Archive 2009-07-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • The Benedictines venerate her as one of their oblates.

    St. Matilda of Saxony, Empress, ancestor of Capetian Dynasty de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • The Benedictines venerate her as one of their oblates.

    Archive 2008-03-09 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Commentationes Societati Regiae scientiarvm oblates ..., trans. and ed. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (Göttingen, 1775); Tobias Mayer's Opera Inedita, ed. Eric G. Forbes (London, 1971). back

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

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