oblate

• Persistent repetition will finally influence the young mind, however gifted, and if Mr Wells had been subject to the discipline of what may be called an efficient education, he might have seen his sphere at the age of twenty-seven as slightly flattened—whether it appeared oblate or prolate is no consequence—and I could not have crowned him with the designation that heads this Introduction. —  H. G. Wells
• Note that you omitted your latest "pious title" which at last count was now "oblate". —  National Catholic Reporter
• But Cunningham himself is something of a fashion "oblate-a layperson who has dedicated his life to the tribe without becoming a part of it." examines the relatively new "mumblecore" genre of low-budget, independent films so nicknamed because they are "a kind of lyrical documentary of American stasis and inarticulateness." —  Slate Magazine
• He is what our rule calls an oblate, he is a holy and learned man, whom you will certainly like; you can talk with him during the meal Ah!" —  En Route
• You will allow me, father The monk acquiesced by a sign Then if you will come with me," replied the oblate, addressing Durtal, "I will hand it you without delay They went upstairs together, and Durtal then learnt that M. Bruno lived in a room at the bottom of a small corridor, not far from his own His cell was very simply furnished with old middle-class furniture, a bed, a mahogany bureau, a large book-case full of ascetic books, an earthenware stove and some arm-chairs. —  En Route

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