oblati

English

Etymology

Latin oblatus. See oblate.

Noun

1. (religion, Roman Catholicism) Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic state.
2. A class of persons, especially in the Middle Ages, who offered themselves and their property to a monastery.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “oblati”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Bitola

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Italian

Noun

oblati m

1. plural of oblato

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) oblātī

1. nominative masculine plural of oblātus
2. genitive masculine singular of oblātus
3. genitive neuter singular of oblātus
4. vocative masculine plural of oblātus

References

• oblati in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)