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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic state.
  • noun plural A class of persons, especially in the Middle Ages, who offered themselves and their property to a monastery.

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  • noun religion, Roman Catholicism Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic state.
  • noun A class of persons, especially in the Middle Ages, who offered themselves and their property to a monastery.

Etymologies

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Latin, from Latin oblatus. See oblate.

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