Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

oblate (Latin: oblutus, offered) A person who unites with some religious order in order to do certain actions in accordance with its rules and thus share in its merits and spiritual benefits, though remaining a layman and living outside of the monastery or convent. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Oblata (Lat. for offered), the name of the host before consecration. The oblatoe, not consecrated, though blessed on the altar, were given by the priest, before food in the refectory, to those monks who had not received the sacrament. Oblatae were made in a kind of mold of a small pattern. Females, called sanctimoniales, had … Continue reading “Oblata”

Objects * For OBJECTS, RV, in Act 17:23, see WORSHIP Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Objectivize The mental process whereby a sensation which is in the first instance, a subjective state, is transformed into the perception of an object. See Introjection. — L.W. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Objectivistic ethics The view that ethical truths are not relative, that there are certain actions which are right or certain objects which arc good for all individuals alike. See Relativism. — W.K.F. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Objectivism, epistemological Doctrine maintaining that everything apprehended is independent of the apprehender. (Montague.) — H.H. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Objectivism Realism (q.v.). Objective Idealism (q.v.). Logic, Aesthetics, EthicsThe view that the mind possesses objects, norms, or meanings of universal validity. The opposite of subjectivism, psychologism, solipsism, individualism (q.v.). — W.L. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Objective test Any test, whether standardized or not, which meets the requirements of a measuring instrument, permitting no reasonable doubt as to the correctness or incorrectness of the answers given. — J.E.B. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Objective rightness An action is objectively right if it is what the agent really should do, and not merely what he thinks he should do. See Subjective rightness. — W.K.F. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Objective Relativism Epistemological theory which ascribes real objectivity to all perspectives and appearances of an object of perception. (See A. E. Murphy, “Objective Relativism in Dewey and Whitehead,” Philosophical Review, Vol. XXXVI, 1927.) — L.W. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy