objector 
objector (ob-jek'tor), . [< LL. objector, an ac- 
cuser (ML. also aii objector ?), < L. objicere, obi- 
cere, object, accuse: see object, v.] One who 
objects or interposes an adverse opinion, reason, 
or argument; one who is unwilling to receive 
and abide by a proposition, decision, or argu- 
ment advanced, or offers opposing opinions, 
arguments, or reasons. 
object-SOUl (ob'jekt-sol), n. In anthropology, a 
soul or vital principle believed by many barba- 
rous tribes to animate lifeless objects, and gen- 
erally imagined as of a phantom-like, attenu- 
ated materiality, rather than as of a purely spir- 
itual character. 
The doctrine of object-souls, expanding into the general 
doctrine of spirits conveying influence through material 
objects, becomes the origin of Fetichism and idolatry. 
Encyc. Brit., II. 56. 
object-staff (ob'jekt-staf), n. In sure., a level- 
ing-staff. 
object-teaching (ob'jekt-te"ching), n. A mode 
of teaching in which objects themselves are 
made the subject of lessons, tending to the de- 
velopment of the observing and reasoning pow- 
ers. See object-lesson. 
objectualt (ob-jek'tu-al), a. [< L. objectus (ob- 
jectu-), object (see object, n.), + -al.] Pertain- 
ing to that which is without ; external ; objec- 
tive; sensible. 
Thus far have we taken a literal survey of the text [2 
Cor. vi. 16] concerning the material temple, external or 
itlijectital idols, and the impossibility of their agreement. 
Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 290. (Dames.) 
objicient (ob-jis'i-ent), n. [< L. objicien(t-)s, 
ppr. of objicere, obicere, object: see object.] One 
who objects; an objector; an opponent. Card. 
Wiseman. [Bare.] 
objuration (ob-jp-ra'shon), n. [< L. as if *ob- 
juratio(n-), < objurare, bind by an oath : see 06- 
jure.] The act of binding by oath. Bramhall. 
objure (ob-jor'), v. i.; pret. and pp. abjured, 
ppr. abjuring. [= OF. objurer, < LL. objurare, 
bind by an oath, < L. ob, before, +jurare, swear, 
make oath: see jurate,jury.] To swear. [Bare.] 
As the people only laughed at him, he cried the louder 
and more vehemently; nay, at last began abjuring, foam- 
ing, imprecating. Carlyle, Misc. , I. 353. (Davies.) 
objurgate (ob-jer'gat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. objur- 
gated, ppr. objurgating. [< L. objurgatus, pp. 
of objurgare, chide, scold, blame, < ob, before, 
against, + jurgarc, chide, scold, and lit. (LL.) 
sue at law, < jus (jur-), right, law, + agere, 
drive, pursue : see agent.] To chide ; reprove. 
Command all to do their duty. Command, but not ob- 
jurgate. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 168. 
objurgation (ob-jer-ga'shon), . [= F. objurga- 
tion = It. objurgazione, < 1i"objurgatio(n-), a chid- 
ing, reproof, < objurgare, chide : see objurgate.] 
The act of objurgating, or chiding by way of 
censure; reproof; reprehension. 
If there be no true liberty, but all things come to pass 
by inevitable necessity, then what are all interrogations, 
objurgations, and reprehensions, and expostulations? 
Abp. Bramhall, Against Hobbes. 
He will try to soothe him, and win him, if he can, to re- 
consider and retract so grievous an objurgation. 
It. Choate, Addresses, p. 405. 
objurgatory (ob-jer'ga-to-ri), a. [= F. objurga- 
toire, < L. objurgatorius', chiding, < objurgator, 
one who chides, < objurgare, chide : see objur- 
gate.] Having the character of an objurgation ; 
containing censure or reproof ; culpatory. 
Now Letters, though they be capable of any Subject, yet 
commonly they are either Narratory, Objurgatory, Consola- 
tory, Monitory, or Congratulatory. Howell, Letters, I. i. 1. 
oblanceolate (ob-lan'se-o-lat), a. [< ob- + lan- 
ceolate.] In bot., shaped like a lance-point re- 
versed that is, having the tapering point next 
the leafstalk: said of certain leaves. See lan- 
ceolate. 
oblate (ob-laf), v. t. ; pret. and pp. ablated, ppr. 
ablating. [< L. oblatus, pp. of obferre, offerre, 
present, offer, devote : see offer.] If. To offer; 
present; propose. 
Both garrisons and the inhabitantes, oppressed with 
much penurye and extreme famyne, were coacted to ren- 
der the cytie vpon reasonable conditions to them by the 
Frenche Kyng sent and ablated. Hall, Hen. VI., an. 31. 
2. To offer as an oblation; devote to the service 
of God or of the church. Sev. 0. Shipley. 
oblate (ob-laf or ob'lat), . [1. = F. oblat = 
Sp. Pg. It. oblato,< ML. oblatus, an oblate, i. e. 
a secular person devoted, with his belongings, 
to a particular monastery or service, < L. ob- 
latus, pp., offered, devoted : see oblate, v. 2. = 
OF. oubUe, ublee, oblie, an offering, altar-bread, 
a cake, wafer, F. oufiiie (> Sp. oblea), a wafer 
(see able), = Sp. Pg. oblatla, an offering of 
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bread, oblata, an offering, = It. oblata, < ML. 
oh/ittd, an offering, tribute, esp. an offering of 
bread, altar-bread, a cake, wafer, fern, of L. 06- 
latux, offered: seeabove.] 1. Inthe.R0Bf.Cal*. 
Ch., a secular person devoted to a monastery, 
but not under its vows. Specifically- (a) One who 
devoted himself, his dependents, and estates to the ser- 
vice of some monastery into which he was admitted as a 
kind of lay brother. 
One Master Guccio and his wife, Mina, who had given 
themselves as ablates, with all their property, to the church 
[at Siena], devoting themselves and their means to the ad- 
vance of the work. 
C. E. Norton, Church-building in Middle Ages, p. 151. 
(b) A child dedicated by his or her parents to a monastic 
life, and therefore held in monastic discipline and domi- 
cile. 
Born of humble parents, who offered him [Suger], in his 
early youth, as an oblate at the altar of St. Denis, he had 
been bred in the schools of the abbey. 
Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 768. 
(c) One who assumed the cowl in immediate anticipation 
of death, (a) One of a congregation of secular priests who 
do not bind themselves by monastic vows. The congre- 
gation of the Oblates of St. Charles or (Mates of the Blessed 
Virgin and St. Ambrose was founded in the diocese of Milan 
in the sixteenth century by St. Charles Borromeo ; that of 
the Oblates of Italy was founded at Turin in 1816 ; and that 
of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, founded in the south of 
France in 1815, was brought into the United States in 1848. 
(e) One of a community of women engaged in religious and 
charitable work. Such communities are the oblates found- 
ed by St. Francesca of Rome about 1433, and the Oblate Sis- 
ters of Providence, a sisterhood of colored women founded 
at Baltimore in 1825 for the education and the ameliora- 
tion of the condition of colored women. 
2. Eccles., a loaf of unconsecrated bread pre- 
pared for use at the celebration of the eucha- 
rist ; altar-bread. From the earliest times of which 
we have distinct information, oblates have been circular 
in form, of moderate thickness, and marked with a cross 
or crosses. In the Western Church they are unleavened, 
much reduced in size, and commonly known as wafers, 
or, especially after consecration, as hosts. In the Anglican 
Church the use of leavened bread in loaves of ordinary size 
and form was permitted at the Reformation, and became 
the prevalent though not exclusive use. The Greek Church 
uses a circular oblate of leavened bread, in the center of 
which is a square projection called the Holy Lamb. This 
projecting part alone is consecrated, and the remainder 
serves for the antidoron. Oblate roll, in Eng. hist., the 
account kept in the exchequer, particularly in the reigns 
of John and Henry III., of old debts due to the king and 
of gifts made to him. 
oblate (ob-laf), a. [< L. oblatus, taken in sense 
of 'spread out,' namely, at the sides of the 
sphere, pp. of obferre, offerre, bring forward, 
present, offer: see offer.] In geom., flattened 
at the poles : said of a figure generated by the 
revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis: 
as, the earth is an oblate spheroid. See prolate. 
oblateness (ob-lafnes), n. The condition of 
being oblate or flattened at the poles. 
oblation (ob-la'shon), . [= F. oblation = Sp. 
oblacion = Pg. oblagao = It. oblazione, < LL. ob- 
latio(n-), an offering, presenting, gift, present, 
< L. oblatus, pp. of obferre, offerre, present, 
offer: see oblate, v., and offer.] 1. The act of 
offering. Specifically, cedes. : (a) The donation by the 
laity of bread and wine for the eucharist, and of other 
gifts or of contributions in money for the maintenance 
of divine worship and for the support of the clergy and 
the poor. In the early church the bread and wine were 
given by members of the congregation to the deacon be- 
fore the liturgy, and offered by the priest on the altar ; 
later this custom fell into disuse, and the other gifts were 
presented at or just before the offertory. The Greek 
church has a special preparation of the elements in the 
office of prothesis (see prothesis), before the liturgy. (&) 
The offering or presenting to God upon the altar of the un- 
consecrated bread and wine; theoffertory. (c) Thesolemn 
offering or presentation in memorial before God of the con- 
secrated elements as sacramentally the body and blood of 
Christ. This is called the great oblation, in distinction from 
the lesser oblation or offertory. The great oblation forms 
the second part of the prayer of consecration, the first part 
being the words of institution, or the consecration in the 
stricter sense. In the Oriental liturgies, in the Scotch 
communion office of 1764, and in the American Book of 
Common Prayer, the great oblation is succeeded by the 
invocation or epiclesis. 
The earliest theory of Liturgies recognised three dis- 
tinct Oblations in the Holy Action. 
J. M. Neale, Eastern Church, i. 339. 
(a) The whole office of holy communion ; the eucharist. 
2. In Bom. law (oblatio), a mode of extinguish- 
ment for debt by the tender of the precise 
amount due. It had to be followed, in Roman and 
French law, in order to become an effectual tender, by 
dejtositio, or consignation into the hand of a public officer. 
Holland. 
3. Anything offered or presented ; an offering; 
a gift. 
Take thou my oblation, poor but free. 
Shat., Sonnets, cxxv. 
I could not make unto your majesty a better oblation 
than of some treatise. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. 5. 
Specifically 4. Anything offered or presented 
in worship; an offering or sacrifice ; especially, 
eccles., a eucharistic offering or donation ; usu- 
obligate 
ally in the plural, the eucharistic elements or 
other offerings at the eucharist. 
Bring no more vain oblations. Isa. i. 13. 
Purification was accompanied with an oblation, some- 
thing was to be given ; a lamb, a dove, a turtle; all em- 
blems of mildness. Donne, Sermons, viii. 
A few Years after, K. Lewis of P'rance comes into Eng- 
land of purpose to visit the Shrine of St. Thomas ; where, 
having paid his Vows, he makes Oblations with many rich 
Presents. Baker, Chronicles, p. 58. 
This ablation of an heart fixed with dependence on and 
affection to him is the most acceptable tribute we can pay 
him, the foundation of true devotion and life of all reli- 
gion. Locke, Reasonableness of Christianity. 
5. In canon law, anything offered to God and 
the church, whether movables or immovables. 
The name of Oblations, applied not only here to those 
small and petit payments which yet are a part of the min- 
ister's right but also generally given unto all such allow- 
ances as serve for their needful maintenance, is both an- 
cient and convenient. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 74. 
oblationert ( ob-la'shon -er), . [< oblation + 
-er 1 .] 1. One who makes an oblation or offer- 
ing- 
He presents himself an oblationer before the Almighty. 
Dr. H. More, llystery of Godliness, p. 423. 
2. The church official who receives oblations, 
oblatratet (ob-la'triit), v. t. [< L. oblatratus, 
pp. of oblatrare, bark at, < ob, before, + latrare, 
bark: see latrate.] To bark at; snarl at; rail 
against. Cockeram. 
oblatrationt (ob-la-tra'shon), n. [< L. as if *o6- 
latratio(n-), < oblatrare, bark at: see oblatrate.] 
Barking; snarling; quarrelsome or captious 
objection or objections. 
The apostle feares none of these currish oblatrations ; 
but contemning all impotent mi&acceptions, calls them 
what he finds them, a froward generation. 
Bp. Hall, Sermon preached to the Lords. 
oblet, obleyt. " [ME., < OF. oblec, oublee, oblie 
(F. oublie), < ML. oblata, an offering : see ob- 
late, n.] The bread prepared for the eucha- 
rist; an oblate. Also obeley. 
Ne Jhesu was nat the able 
That reysed was at the sacre. 
JUS. Harl. 1701, f. 66. (HaUiweU.) 
oblectatet (ob-lek'tat), v. t. [< L. oblectatus, 
pp. of oblectare, delight, please, < ob, before, + 
lactare, freq. of lacere, allure. Cf. delight, de- 
lectation.] To delight; please highly. Cotgrave. 
oblectationt (ob-lek-ta'shpn), n. [< OF. oblecta- 
tion, < L. oblectatio(n-), a delighting, < oblectare, 
delight: see oblectate.] The act of pleasing 
highly; delight. 
The third in obtectation and fruition of pleasures and 
anton pastimes. Nor\ 
obleyt, . See able. 
wanton pastimes. Northbrooke, Dicing (1577). (Nares.) 
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obligable (ob'li-ga-bl), a. [< L. as if "obligabi- 
lis, < obligare, bind, oblige : see oblige.] Capa- 
ble of being held to the performance of what 
has been undertaken ; true to a promise or con- 
tract ; trustworthy in the performance of duty. 
The main difference between people seems to be that 
one man can come under obligations on which you can 
rely is obligable and another is not. 
Emerson, Complete Prose Works, II. 463. 
obligant (ob'li-gant), H. [< L. obligan(t-)s, ppr. 
of obligare, bind : see obligate, oblige.] In Scots 
law, one who binds himself by a legal tie to pay 
or perform something to or for another person. 
obligate (ob'li-gat), 0. t.; pret. undpTp. obligated, 
ppr. obligating. [< L. obligatus, pp. of obligare, 
bind, oblige : see oblige.] 1 . To bind by legal 
or moral tie, as by oath, indenture, or treaty ; 
bring under legal or moral obligation ; hold to 
some specific act or duty; pledge. 
Every person not having a greater annual revenue in 
land than one hundred pence was obligated to have in his 
possession a bow and arrows. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 116. 
That 's your true plan. To obligate 
The present ministers of state. 
Churchill, The Ghost, iv. 
This oath he himself explains as obligating, not merely 
to a passive compliance with the statutory enactments, 
but to an active maintenance of their authority. 
Sir W. Hamilton. 
Suppose ... that Colombia had obligated herself to the 
company to allow such vessels to pass. 
N. A. Rev., CXLIII. -207. 
2. To place under obligation in any way, as on 
account of continued favors or repeated acts 
of kindness; make beholden or indebted ; con- 
strain by considerations of duty, expediency, 
courtesy, etc. [Chiefly colloq. for oblige.] 
I am sorry, sir, I am obligated to leave you. 
foote, Mayor of Garratt, i. 1. 
They [the trees) feel obligated to follow the mode, and 
come out in a new suit of green. 
Thackeray, Early and Late Papers, Men and Coats. 
