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Oblation
OBLA’TION, noun [Latin oblatio, from offero; ob and fero, to bear or bring.]
Any thing offered or presented in worship or sacred service; an offering; a sacrifice.
Bring no more vain oblations. Isaiah 1:13.
Oblivion
OBLIV’ION, noun [Latin oblivio.]
1. Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance.
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
2. A forgetting of offenses, or remission of punishment. An act of oblivion is an amnesty, or general pardon of crimes and offenses, granted by a sovereign, by which punishment is remitted.
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OBSEQUIES
OB’SEQUIES, noun plural [Latin obsequium, complaisance, from obsequor, to follow.]
Funeral rites & solemnities; the last duties performed to a deceased person.
[Milton uses the word in the singular, but the common usage is different.]
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.OBSE’QUIOUS, adjective [from Latin obsequium, complaisance, from obsequor, to follow; ob and sequor.]
1. Promptly obedient or submissive to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of others, properly to the will or command of a superior, but in actual use, it often signifies yielding to the will or desires of such as have no right to control.
His servants weeping, obsequious to his orders, bear him hither.
2. Servilely or meanly condescending; compliant to excess; as an obsequious flatterer, minion or parasite.
3. Funereal; pertaining to funeral rites. [Not used.]