AN OBLIQUE REFERENCE

The collective vocabulary of our subscribers keeps me running for my dictionary. In an article on images of Lincoln in the same issue of COIN WORLD, Fred L. Reed III writes:

"... an image of Lincoln does appear on this $3 note, in the form of an oblate revenue stamp at the left center."

The online Information Please Almanac (www.infoplease.com) has these entries for adjective and noun definitions:

Pronunciation: (ob'lAt, o-blAt'), [key]
—adj. flattened at the poles, as a spheroid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its shorter axis (opposed to prolate).

—n.

1. a person offered to the service of and living in a monastery, but not under monastic vows or full monastic rule.
2. a lay member of any of various Roman Catholic societies devoted to special religious work.

Wayne Homren, Editor

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The E-Sylum: Volume 3, Number 28, July 9, 2000, Article 9

AN OBLIQUE REFERENCE

Wayne Homren, Editor