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6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life
adjective having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles
originFrom French oblat and its source, Ecclesiastical Latin oblātus (“person dedicated to religious life”), nominalization of oblātus, perfect passive participle of offerō (“to offer”); see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0