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Definition of oblation in English: oblationnoun əˈbleɪʃ(ə)n 1A thing presented or offered to God or a god. (供奉上帝或神的)祭品 Example sentencesExamples - Having done this, they were led to the altar, made oblations there, and ‘returned to themselves.’
- The warden is to hand over all oblations to the Prior of Norwich.
- To the most religious people in the world at that time God said: Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies.
- Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.
- Fire is the intermediary between people and gods and receives oblations from the humans.
- Manu has declared that those Brahmanas who are thieves, outcasts, eunuchs, or atheists are unworthy to partake of oblations offered to gods and ancestors.
- From the repeated allusions to offering, oblation, and victim, it becomes clear that the action is a sacrifice.
- Believers have consecrated many oblations in front of the statue of Master Yuan.
- He has lived this way, and this is the consummation of his generosity and this is the final oblation of his life to God, and it is the way he lived, and now it's the way he dies.
- It is you, O Agni most youthful, whom, once enkindled, the Gods have chosen as messenger, conveyer of oblations.
- For centuries, the inhabitants of the high mountains have gone there to pay oblations to their forefathers and to leave behind the horoscopes of those who have gone to the other Kingdom.
- The legs were also placed along the limbs of the corpse and all covered with the skin before mantras and oblations were made and the funeral pyre set alight.
- The holy scriptures enjoin that people should have a holy dip in the Krishna, offer charity and perform oblations to gods in memory of their ancestors.
- They perform certain rituals and rites to please God hoping that these vain oblations will work.
- The religious duties included the offering of oblations to itinerant monks who preached the belief.
- The resplendent Lord bestows affluence on the devotee who offers worship and oblations.
- Agni will take the oblations and offer it to the different destinations.
- May everything I eat or drink be oblations to you.
- I repeat for you a common prayer, I offer for you a common oblation.
- When these oblations are concluded, we will all flood the lake or the nearby ocean for our holy dip in the sanctified waters.
Synonyms contribution, donation, benefaction, gift, present, handout, widow's mite, subscription religious offering, offering, sacrifice, peace offering, burnt offering, thank offering, first fruits, libation - 1.1Christian Church mass noun The presentation of bread and wine to God in the Eucharist.
〔基督教教会〕(圣餐仪式中)面包和酒的供奉 Example sentencesExamples - Only the one ‘full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world’ will do.
- The words of consecration are spoken consciously by him (in the name of the church) as an account of the foundation of what the church does in oblation, and of what the church prays the Holy Spirit to effect.
- Superseding the offerings made in the old dispensation, he offers himself as ‘the full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice, oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world.’
- Thus, as the oblation of the Eucharist is made, we look backwards to the Passion, as well as forward to our own unity in the one body, when we come together for the liturgical celebration of this ‘mystery.’
- The same letter plunges us to the heart of our undertaking, when it declares: By a single oblation, he has perfected forever those whom he sanctifies.
Derivativesadjective Self-sacrifice is always an expression of oblational (giving) tendencies. Example sentencesExamples - Having gratified him, now I partake of the oblational food with Somrasa."
adjective ˈɒblət(ə)ri Hours before the oblatory ceremony, nearly a hundred believers gathered at the HKCE to wait for the arrival of the Buddha's finger bone. Example sentencesExamples - The Buddha's sarira (finger-bone) from Xi'an Famen Buddhist Temple arrives at the Convention and Exhibition Center during an oblatory ceremony in Hong Kong.
- Through it Christ is made present on the altar (consecratory aspect) and offered to God (oblatory aspect).
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin oblatio(n-), from Latin offerre 'to offer'. Rhymesablation, aeration, agnation, Alsatian, Amerasian, Asian, aviation, cetacean, citation, conation, creation, Croatian, counterdemonstration, counterproliferation, crustacean, curation, Dalmatian, delation, dilation, donation, duration, elation, fixation, Galatian, geolocation, glocalization, gyration, Haitian, halation, Horatian, ideation, illation, lavation, legation, libation, location, lunation, mutation, natation, nation, negation, notation, nutation, oration, ovation, potation, relation, rogation, rotation, Sarmatian, sedation, Serbo-Croatian, station, staycation, taxation, Thracian, vacation, vexation, vocation, zonation Definition of oblation in US English: oblationnoun 1A thing presented or offered to God or a god. (供奉上帝或神的)祭品 Example sentencesExamples - The holy scriptures enjoin that people should have a holy dip in the Krishna, offer charity and perform oblations to gods in memory of their ancestors.
- I repeat for you a common prayer, I offer for you a common oblation.
- The religious duties included the offering of oblations to itinerant monks who preached the belief.
- When these oblations are concluded, we will all flood the lake or the nearby ocean for our holy dip in the sanctified waters.
- For centuries, the inhabitants of the high mountains have gone there to pay oblations to their forefathers and to leave behind the horoscopes of those who have gone to the other Kingdom.
- The warden is to hand over all oblations to the Prior of Norwich.
- Manu has declared that those Brahmanas who are thieves, outcasts, eunuchs, or atheists are unworthy to partake of oblations offered to gods and ancestors.
- Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.
- They perform certain rituals and rites to please God hoping that these vain oblations will work.
- The resplendent Lord bestows affluence on the devotee who offers worship and oblations.
- Having done this, they were led to the altar, made oblations there, and ‘returned to themselves.’
- From the repeated allusions to offering, oblation, and victim, it becomes clear that the action is a sacrifice.
- Agni will take the oblations and offer it to the different destinations.
- He has lived this way, and this is the consummation of his generosity and this is the final oblation of his life to God, and it is the way he lived, and now it's the way he dies.
- To the most religious people in the world at that time God said: Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies.
- May everything I eat or drink be oblations to you.
- The legs were also placed along the limbs of the corpse and all covered with the skin before mantras and oblations were made and the funeral pyre set alight.
- It is you, O Agni most youthful, whom, once enkindled, the Gods have chosen as messenger, conveyer of oblations.
- Fire is the intermediary between people and gods and receives oblations from the humans.
- Believers have consecrated many oblations in front of the statue of Master Yuan.
Synonyms contribution, donation, benefaction, gift, present, handout, widow's mite, subscription religious offering, offering, sacrifice, peace offering, burnt offering, thank offering, first fruits, libation - 1.1Christian Church The presentation of bread and wine to God in the Eucharist.
〔基督教教会〕(圣餐仪式中)面包和酒的供奉 Example sentencesExamples - The same letter plunges us to the heart of our undertaking, when it declares: By a single oblation, he has perfected forever those whom he sanctifies.
- Superseding the offerings made in the old dispensation, he offers himself as ‘the full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice, oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world.’
- The words of consecration are spoken consciously by him (in the name of the church) as an account of the foundation of what the church does in oblation, and of what the church prays the Holy Spirit to effect.
- Only the one ‘full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world’ will do.
- Thus, as the oblation of the Eucharist is made, we look backwards to the Passion, as well as forward to our own unity in the one body, when we come together for the liturgical celebration of this ‘mystery.’
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin oblatio(n-), from Latin offerre ‘to offer’. |