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Oblate meaning
A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community. | A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.
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Currently, Father Rolheiser is serving as President of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio Texas.
Mother Lange and the Oblate Sisters of Providence have helped a whole lot of people.
Piché has been removed from public ministry and placed on "active monitoring" according to Father Ken Thorsen, the head of OMI Lacombe, the Oblate order headquartered in Ottawa.
Alarie Mayze made a strong start for Oblate and with Samantha Masseys help they led briefly.
My responsibility as the delegate for consecrated life is my “day job,” but my life as an Apostolic Oblate is my vocation.
Greystone Village, a 26-acre project by the Regional Group, is under development on the former Oblate lands.
Oblate Father Romeo Saniel of the Philippines recalled his spiritual struggle as he consoled survivors after a pair of suicide bombers attacked the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Jan.
A rotating star in hydrostatic equilibrium is an oblate spheroid up to a certain (critical) angular velocity.
Because of its rapid rotation, the planet's shape is that of an oblate spheroid (it has a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator).
Besides the torus -shaped terminal, he applied for hemispherical and oblate terminals.
For the sake of convenience, a revolving oblate spheroid set at the point at which atmospheric pressure equals 1 bar (100 kPa) is conditionally designated as a "surface".
He had become a secular oblate of the Abbey's monastic community, making his final oblation on February 16, 1990, less than three months before his death.
His prediction that the Earth should be shaped as an oblate spheroid was later vindicated by other scientists.
Maclaurin showed that an oblate spheroid was a possible equilibrium in Newton's theory of gravity.
Oblate, round and pointed shapes are found.
The exact distance varies along meridian arcs because the figure of the Earth is slightly oblate (bulges a third of a percent at the equator).