oblate
ob layt
- n a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life
- a having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles
- She remained firmly Presbyterian even as she took on her Catholic oblate duties, a juxtaposition she likens to "interplanetary travel.
- In May 1953 Diem entered a Benedictine monastery in Belgium, where he was considered an oblate, or lay member.
- Rotating majestically, the oblate-spheroid world in miniature dominates the lobbies of the Cowles family's Des Moines Register and Tribune, and its Minneapolis Tribune and Star .