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This consists in a thin nebulous matter, which is diffused around the sun to nearly the orbit of Mercury, of a very oblately spheroidal shape. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert

The result of these expeditions was the determination that the globe is oblately spheroidal.

From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Williams, Henry Smith

Its oblately spheroidal form is such as would be assumed by a rotating mass of matter in the transition from a vaporous and self-luminous or liquid condition to one of cool and dark solidity.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various