Lewis Short
ob-lātĭo (noun F) : id.
* An offering, presenting, a giving or bestowing gratuitously (post-class.; cf.: donum, munus, votum).
* In abstr.: honorum oblationibus,Eum. Pan. ad Const. 16: si forte oblatio ei fiat ejus, quod, etc.,Dig. 5, 2, 8, § 10.
* In partic., a bid at an auction: qui ceteros oblatione superavit, Cod. Th. 5, 13, 18.
* In concr., a gift, present: amplissimi ordinis, Cod. Th. 6, 2, 14: si maritus ad oblationem dei uxori donavit,Dig. 24, 1, 5, § 12.
* Esp., an offering, sacrifice, Ambros. Cain, 2, 6, 18; id. in Psa. 35, 7; Vulg. Eph. 5, 2; id. Heb. 10, 5.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary