oblation
See also: Oblation
English
WOTD – 8 December 2007
Etymology
From Middle English oblacioun, from Old French oblacion, from Latin oblātiō (“offering”), from offerō (“I offer, present”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əʊˈbleɪʃən/, /ɒˈbleɪʃən/
- (US) IPA(key): /oʊˈbleɪʃən/, /ɑːˈbleɪʃən/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
oblation (plural oblations)
- The offering of worship, thanks etc. to a deity.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Leviticus 2:7:
- And if thy oblation be a meate offering baken in the frying pan,it ſhalbe made of fine flowꝛe with oyle.
- 1786, [William Beckford], [Samuel Henley], transl., An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: […] [Vathek], new edition, London: […] W. Clarke, […], published 1809, OCLC 30959801:
- whatever she judged proper for the oblation of the approaching night.
- 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “From the Cabby’s Seat”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, OCLC 1399985, page 165:
- In the fulness of time there was an eruption of the merry-makers to the sidewalk. The uninvited guests enveloped and permeated them, and upon the night air rose joyous cries, congratulations, laughter and unclassified noises born of McGary's oblations to the hymeneal scene.
- 2017, “Wallowa Lake Monster”, in The Greatest Gift, performed by Sufjan Stevens:
- As she waits for her children in the shade / Demogorgon or demigod the ghost parade / No oblation will bring her back to our place
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- (by extension) A deed or gift offered charitably.
Related terms
- oblate
- oblational
- oblatory
- offer
Translations
the offering to a deity
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deed or gift offered
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Anagrams
- boltonia, lobation
French
Noun
oblation f (plural oblations)
- oblation
Further reading
- “oblation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
oblation
- Alternative form of oblacioun