Oblation

Definitions: Oblation

Oblation

Noun

1. The act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity; "oblations for aid to the poor".

2. The act of offering the bread and wine of the Eucharist.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "oblation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Oblation \Ob*la"tion\, noun. [Latin expression oblatio: compare to the French expression oblation. See Oblate.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Oblation

Giving

Alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish; fee; (recompense); consideration.

Gift, donation, present, cadeau; fairing; free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation; lagniappe, pilon.

Worship

Oblation, sacrifice, incense, libation; burnt offering, heave offering, votive offering; offertory.

Crosswords: Oblation

French (oblation, offertory).

Books

• In Samuel's Image: Child Oblation in the Early Medieval West (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Vol 12) (reference)

• The Prayers of Saint Therese of Lisieux: The Act of Oblation (Therese, Works.) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Oblation

Albanian

sakrificë (immolation, obsecration, offering, privation, sacrifice, sin offering), dhuratë (benevolence, bestowal, bounty, contribution, endowment, fairing, Favor, favour, gift, grant, handsel, offering, premium, present, presentation, testimonial, token), blatim (bestowal, peace offering). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قربان (immolation, offering, sacrifice), ‏ذبيحة القربان. (various references)

Bulgarian 

жертвоприношение (immolation, offering, sacrifice), жертва (casualty, fall guy, fool, immolation, mug, offering, patsy, prey, sacrifice, victim), причастие (communion, eucharist, ordinance, participle, particle, sacrament), пожертвувание (contribution, donation, gift, offering), дарение (beneficence, donation, dower, endowment, gift, grant, offering), дар (blessing, boon, bounty, donative, drink offering, endowment, gift, offering, pledge, present, presentation). (various references)

Czech

obìtování (immolation, victimization). (various references)

French

oblation. (various references)

German

opfer (casualty, immolation, offering, prey, price, sacrifice, victim, victims). (various references)

Greek 

αφιέρωση (dedication, devotion, inscription, sanctification), αφιέρωμα (feature, vow). (various references)

Hebrew 

מנחה (gift, minhah, offering, present, sacrifice, tribute), תרומה (contribution, donation, endowment, gift, offering). (various references)

Hungarian

áldozat (gambit, holocaust, prey, sacrifice, victim). (various references)

Italian

oblazione, sacrifizio. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

奉納 (dedication, offering, presentation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほうのう (dedication, offering, presentation). (various references)

Pig Latin

oblationay

Portuguese

oferenda feita a deus, oblação (sacrifice), achatada nos pólos. (various references)

Romanian

obol, sacrificare (devotion, giving up, immolation, renunciation, sacrifice, sacrifice of, sacrificing), prinos (gift, offering, sacrifice, tribute), jertfã (host, offering, prey, price, sacrifice, victim), cuminecãturã (communion, eucharist). (various references)

Russian 

воздаяние (retaliation, retribution), жертвоприношение (immolation, sacrifice), жертва (casualty, immolation, prey, sacrifice, victim), евхаристия (Eucharist). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pričest (communion, sumption), žrtvovanje (immolation, offering, offertory, sacrifice, victimization). (various references)

Spanish

ofrenda (gift, offering, sacrifice), oblata, oblación. (various references)

Thai

การเซ่นไหว้, การบูชาด้วยขนมปังและเหล้าองุ่นในศาสนาคริสต์. (various references)

Turkish

tanrı'ya sunulan şey, kurban (fall guy, fatality, holocaust, martyr, offering, patsy, peace offering, prey, sacrifice, sacrificial, stiff, sufferer, victim), adak (offer, offering, threat, vow), aşai rabbani ayini (communion holy, eucharist, lord's supper, mass, rite, the blessed sacrament, the holy sacrament, the sacrament). (various references)

Ukranian 

євхаристія (eucharist), відплата (atonement, comeback, comeuppance, nemesis, quits, requital, retaliation, retort, retribution, reward, wages, wrack), жертвування (contribution, sacrifice), жертва (immolation, offering, prey, sacrifice, victim), причастя (communion, sacrament), причащання, приношення, пожертва на церковні справи, пожертва на благодійні справи, дарунок. (various references)

Welsh

offrwm (offering), aberthged (offering of fruits, sheaf of corn). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "oblation": oblations. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Oblation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coblation, oblastion, oblaztion, obulation, olation, Osbaston, poblacion, ulation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: boltonia, lobation.

-2 letters: albino, bonita, bonito, latino, lotion, obtain, talion.

-3 letters: aboil, aboon, aloin, baton, binal, biont, biota, blain, bloat, notal, oboli, taboo, talon, tolan, tonal.

-4 letters: alit, alto, anil, anti, bail, bait, bani, bint, blat, blin, blot, boat, boil, bola, bolo, bolt, boon, boot, bota, into, iota, lain, lati, lino, lint, lion, loan, lobo, loin.

+1 letter: abolition, boltonias, lobations, oblations.

+2 letters: abolitions, absolution, balloonist, bilocation, bloodstain, bloviation, lobulation, obligation.

+3 letters: absolutions, balloonists, bilocations, bloodstains, bloviations, elaboration, haptoglobin, lobulations, obligations, probational.

+4 letters: abolitionary, abolitionism, abolitionist, alloantibody, automobiling, bloodstained, conglobating, conglobation, elaborations, embolization, geobotanical, haptoglobins, honorability, labanotation, mobilization, obliteration, obnubilation, paleobotanic, strobilation, urbanologist.

+5 letters: abolitionisms, abolitionists, apportionable, biconditional, carbonylation, carboxylation, collaborating, collaboration, combinational, combinatorial, conditionable, confabulation, conglobations, embolizations, globalization, labanotations, lactoglobulin, malabsorption, mobilizations, noncompatible, nonnegotiable, nonobligatory, objectionable, objectionably, obliterations, obnubilations, observational, odontoblastic, paleobotanies, paleobotanist, probationally, strobilations, suballocation, subpopulation, symbolization, urbanologists.

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