Crossword-Solution: OBLATE 6 letters, 64 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Oblate	a.	Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.
Oblate	a.	Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n.
Oblate	a.	One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates.
Oblate	a.	One of the Oblati.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
OBLATE	anagram	ABLETO, BOATEL, LOBATE

We have 64 clues for the answer “OBLATE”

Clue	Answers
PRIEST putting himself in the hands of the bishop to be used by him	1 answer
Flattened, like the Earth	1 answer
Layman in a monastery	1 answer
Layperson in a monastery	1 answer
Like Earth's shape	1 answer
Like M&M's	1 answer
Like a flattened O	1 answer
Like a flattened ball	1 answer
Like a solid formed by rotating an ellipse about its minor axis	1 answer
Like some spheroids	1 answer
Like the Earth's shape	1 answer
Man in a monestary	1 answer
Monastic auxiliary	1 answer
One dedicated to the religious life	1 answer
One devoted to monastic life.	1 answer
Layperson dedicated to religious life	1 answer
Person dedicated to religious life.	1 answer
Pumpkin shaped	1 answer
Pumpkin-shaped	1 answer
Religious layperson	1 answer
Secular member of a monastery.	1 answer
Shaped like Saturn	1 answer
Shaped like Skittles	1 answer
Shaped like a clementine	1 answer
Spheroidal	1 answer
Squeezed at the ends, as leaves	1 answer
Squished at the poles	1 answer
Tangerine-shaped	1 answer
___ spheroid (football, to sports writers)	1 answer
being flattened at the poles	1 answer
Flattened at the poles, as the earth is.	1 answer
Almost spherical in shape	1 answer
Certain monastery resident	1 answer
Child dedicated to religious life	1 answer
DEVOTEE to monastic life	1 answer
Depressed at the poles	1 answer
Depressed, in a way	1 answer
Devoted to a religious life.	1 answer
FLATTENED at the poles	1 answer
Flat at the poles	1 answer
Flattened at the ends	1 answer
Flattened at the extremes, as Earth	1 answer
Flattened at the poles, as Earth	1 answer
Flattened at the poles, as a spheroid.	1 answer
Flattened at the poles, like Earth	1 answer
Earth-shaped	2 answers
Shaped like a football	2 answers
Dweller in a monastery.	2 answers
Secular person.	2 answers
Leaf shape	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

REATE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with OBLATE (5)

The Oblate Fathers, whose church was situated in the very heart of the infected district, continued to denounce vaccination; the faithful were exhorted to rely on devotional exercises of various sorts; under the sanction of the hierarchy a great procession was ordered with a solemn appeal to the Virgin, and the use of the rosary was carefully specified.

History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Andrew Dickson White 1996

Mordacks took from an inner pocket a little pill-box, and thence produced a globe, or rather an oblate spheroid, of bright gold, rather larger than a musket-ball, but fluted or crenelled like a poppy-head, and stamped or embossed with marks like letters.

Mary Anerley R. D. Blackmore 2006

Thus he hoped, at one time, to see the Dominicans at Galashiels, and showed the greatest regard for the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate, who were for nine years in charge of the mission there, while, both in London, and at Abbotsford and Dorlin, the Fathers of the Oratory and the Secular clergy were welcome and honoured guests.

Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 Robert Ornsby 2005

The mission at Galashiels was held at first by the Oblate Fathers, but from the end of July 1863 by the Jesuits.[Footnote: There is a letter of Father Jos.

Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 Robert Ornsby 2005

Our conception of ultimate matter is reduced to that of an oblate spheroid described by the revolution of an ellipse on its own minor axis!” “Good heavens!” we said.

Frenzied Fiction Stephen Leacock 2005

Quotes with OBLATE (3)

The journey through another world, beyond bad dreamsbeyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivorsmakes sacristans of us all. The old ones go our bail, we oblate preachers of our tribes. Be careful, they say, don't hock the beads of kinship agonies; the moire-effect of unfamiliar hymnsupon our own, a change in pitch or shrillness of the voicetransforms the ways of song to words of poetry or proseand makes distinctionsno one recognize…

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

The vulgar modern argument used against religion, and lately against common decency, would be absolutely fatal to any idea of liberty. It is perpetually said that because there are a hundred religions claiming to be true, it is therefore impossible that one of them should really be true. The argument would appear on the face of it to be illogical, if anyone nowadays troubled about logic. It would be as reasonable to say that because some people thought the earth was flat, and…

G. K. Chesterton

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

Steven Pinker

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 58 times in crossword archives (1950–2024).