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OAR, a long piece of timber, flat at one end and round or square at the other, and which being applied to the side of a floating vessel, serves to propel, or cause it to advance upon the water. That part of the oar which is out of the vessel, and which enters into the water, is called the blade or wash-plot ; and that...
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OAR
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OARISTUS, or Oaristys, a term in Greek poetry, signifying a dialogue between a husband and his wife; as that in the sixth book of the Iliad, between Hector and Andromache. Scaliger observes, that the oaristus is not properly any particular little poem, or entire piece of poetry, but always a part of a great one; and th...
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OARISTUS
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OASIS, the name of a fertile spot in the midst of a sandy desert. Many of these spots, or oases, in the African deserts, are remarkable for their fertility.
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OASIS
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OATH, an affirmation or promise, accompanied with an invocation of God to witness what we say, and with an imprecation of his vengeance, or a renunciation of his grace, if what we affirm be false, or what we promise be not performed. The word is a corruption of the Saxon coth ; and in England it is often called a corpo...
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OATH
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OAXACA, one of the states of the republican confederacy of Mexico See the article Mexico Oaxaca, the capital city of a state of the same name in the republic of Mexico It is built on the site of the ancient Huaxyacac, and bore the name of Antequera at the time of the conquest. Its situation is in a delightful valley, f...
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OAXACA
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OBA, a town of Persia, in the province of Azerbijan, at the head of a small gulf on the western coast of the Caspian, and on one of the mouths of the Kur, about 150 miles north-east of Tabreez.
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OBA
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OBADIAH, or the Prophecy of Obadiah, a canonical book of the Old Testament, contained in a single chapter. It is partly an invective against the cruelty of the Edomites, who mocked and derided the children of Israel as they passed into captivity, and, with their confederates, invaded and oppressed these strangers, divi...
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OBADIAH
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OBAN, a neat and small modern town in the parish of Kilbride, lordship of Lorn, and county of Argyle, ninety-two miles from Glasgow, and 136 from Edinburgh. The situation of the town is well chosen, both as regards the picturesque scenery amidst which it is placed, the convenient station which its bay affords for natio...
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OBAN
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OBDORSK, a name which is given to that part of Asiatic Russia which extends along the northern part of the course of the Obi to the Frozen Ocean. It is also the name of a small palísadoed fort, the most northerly of any maintained by Russia, being garrisoned by an officer, with twenty-five Cossacks, w ho exercise a spe...
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OBDORSK
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OBELISK, in Architecture, a truncated, quadrangular, and slender pyramid, raised as an ornament, and frequently charged with inscriptions or hieroglyphics. Obelisks appear to have been of very great antiquity, and first raised to transmit to posterity certain precepts, which were cut in hieroglyphical characters; but ...
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OBELISK
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OBERGLEICHEN, a city of the grand duchy of Saxe-Gotha, in Germany, in the circle of Volkerode, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name. It is situated on the river Ohre, in the Thuringen Forest, and is the property of Prince Hohenlohe of Neuenstein, now mediatized. It contains four churches, two hospitals, 860 hous...
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OBERGLEICHEN
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OBERNAY, or Oberehinheim, a town of the department of the Lower Rhine, and the arrondissement of Schlet-Stadt, [7:16:318]in France. It stands on the river Ergers, upon the side of the mountain Odilienberg, and contains 4480 inhabitants, who carry on a great trade as coppersmiths and bell-founders.
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OBERNAY
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OBERNIK, a town of the Prussian government of Posen, the capital of a circle of the same name, which contains four towns and 109 villages, with 32,200 inhabitants. It stands on the river Warthe, at its junction with the Welna, and contains 1200 inhabitants, of whom more than one third are Jews. It has some linen weavin...
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OBERNIK
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OBERZO, a city of Austrian Italy, in the province of Milan and delegation of Treviso. It was the Opitergum of Strabo, and formerly stood on the sea, but is now some miles from it. It is fortified, and contains 730 houses, with 4560 inhabitants. Long. 12. 24. 49. E. Lat. 45. 46. 23. N.
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45 46' 23" N 12 24' 49" E
OBERZO
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OBI, a great river of Asiatic Russia, which is said to rise in fifty-two degrees of north latitude, on the southern side of the Altai Mountains, from a lake called by the Tartars Altyn Noor. It is now denominated By, and was formerly known by the name of the Great River, as being the longest which flows through Asiatic...
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OBI
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OBIDOS, a town of Portugal, in the province of Estremadura, and the corregimento of Alenquer. It is situated near the sea coast, on an inlet which forms a small lake called the Lago de Obidos, and contains 1090 houses, but not much more than 3500 inhabitants. On a hill adjoining are the ruins of an ancient castle. A ba...
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OBIDOS
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OBJECT, in Philosophy, is something apprehended or presented to the mind by sensation or imagination. See Metaphysics.
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OBJECT
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OBJECTIVE, is a term used in the schools, in speaking of a thing which exists no otherwise than as an object known. The existence of such a thing is said to be objective.
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OBJECTIVE
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OBIT signifies a funeral solemnity, or office for the dead, most commonly performed when the corpse lies in the church uninterred; and also the anniversary office. The anniversary of any person’s death was called the obit; and to observe such day with prayers and alms, or other commemoration, was the keeping of the obi...
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OBIT
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OBLATE, flattened or shortened, as an oblate spheroid, having its axis shorter than its middle diameter, and being formed by the rotation of an ellipse about its shorter axis. The earth, the polar diameter of which is shorter than the equatorial, is an oblate spheroid.
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OBLATE
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OBLATI, in church history, were secular persons, who devoted themselves and their estates to some monastery, into which they were admitted as a kind of lay-brothers. The form of their admission was putting the bell-ropes of the church round their necks, as a mark of servitude. They wore a religious habit, which, howeve...
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OBLATI
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OBLIGATION, in general, denotes any act by which a person becomes bound to another to do something, as to pay a sum of money, be surety, or the like. Obligations are of three kinds; natural, civil, and mixed. Natural obligations are entirely founded on natural equity; civil obligations rest on civil authority alone, wi...
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OBLIGATION
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OBLIQUE, in Geometry, something aslant, or which deviates from the perpendicular. Thus an oblique angle is either an acute or obtuse one, that is, any angle except a right one. Oblique Cases, in Grammar, are all the cases of nouns except the nominative. Oblique Ascension is that point of the equinoctial which rises w...
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OBLIQUE
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OBLIQUUS, in Anatomy, a name given to several muscles, particularly in the head, eyes, and abdomen.
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OBLIQUUS
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OBLONG, in general, denotes 'a figure the length of which exceeds the breadth; as, for example, a parallelogram.
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OBLONG
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OBOLUS, an ancient silver money of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, and worth somewhat more than a penny farthing sterling. Obolus, in Medicine, is used to signify a weight of ten grains, or half a scruple.
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OBOLUS
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OBOJAN, a city of Russia, in the government of Kursk, the capital of a circle of the same name. It stands at the mouth of the Obojanta, where that river falls into the Psol, and contains 430 dwelling-houses, with 5500 inhabitants, all trading in the products of the vicinity. It is 756 miles from St Petersburg. Long. 35...
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51 12' N 35 45' E
OBOJAN
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OBREPTITIOUS, an appellation given to letters patent, or other instruments, obtained of a superior by surprise, or by concealing from him the truth.
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OBREPTITIOUS
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OBSCAIA, a gulf of the Frozen Ocean, on the southern coast of Asiatic Russia, and forming the estuary of the great river Obi. It extends from lat. 66. 40. to 72. 15. N. and from long. 72. to 76. E.
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OBSCAIA
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OBSCURE, something that is dark, and reflects little light on material objects, or that is not clear and intelligible in the objects of the intellect. [7:16:319]
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OBSCURE
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OBSECRATION, in Rhetoric, a figure by which the orator implores the assistance of God or man.
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OBSECRATION
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OBSERVATION Island, a small island on the north coast of New Holland, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, on the west shore, and one of Sir Edward Pellew’s group.
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OBSERVATION
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OBSERVATORY, a place destined for observing the heavenly bodies, being generally a building erected upon some eminence, covered with a terrace for making astronomical observations. There are many such buildings; but the more celebrated are, the Greenwich observatory, built in 1676, by order of Charles II. at the solici...
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OBSERVATORY
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OBSERVATORY Island, or Padevoua, a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, near the north-east coast of New Caledonia. Long. 165. 41. E. Lat. 20. 18. S.
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20 18' S 165 41' E
OBSERVATORY
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OBSIDIONALIS, an epithet applied by the Romans to a sort of∙crown, conferred on those who had distinguished themselves in the attack of fortified places.
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OBSIDIONALIS
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OBY, or Ouby, a small island in the Eastern Seas, fifty miles long, and from twelve to twenty broad. The sovereignty of this island is claimed by the sultan of Bachian, who has a pearl fishery on its coasts. On this island live many runaway slaves, who cultivate cloves, which they sell to the Buggesses. The Dutch have ...
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OBY
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OCANA, a town of Spain, in the province of Toledo, the capital of a partida of the same name, about'thirty miles to the south-east of Madrid. It stands on a fertile plain, and is surrounded with an ancient and now a dilapidated wall, the buildings bearing more marks of antiquity than of beauty. It has four churches and...
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OCANA
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OCCIDENT, in Geography, the westward quarter of the horizon, or that part of the horizon where the ecliptic, or the sun therein, descends into the lower hemisphere. It it used in contradistinction to orient. Hence the word occidental signifies any thing belonging to the west; as occidental bezoar, occidental pearl, and...
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OCCIDENT
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OCCIPITAL, in Anatomy, a term applied to the parts of the occiput, or posterior part of the skull.
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OCCIPITAL
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OCCULT, something hidden, secret, or invisible. The occult sciences are magic, necromancy, and some others. Occult qualities, in philosophy, were those qualities of body or spirit which baffled the investigation of philosophers, and for which they were unable to give any reason. Unwilling, however, to acknowledge their...
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OCCULT
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OCCULTATION, ∖r∖ Astronomy, the time during which a star or planet is hid from our sight, by the interposition of the body of the moon or some other planet.
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OCCULTATION
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OCCUPANCY, in Law, is the taking possession of those things which before belonged to nobody. This, according to Blackstone, is the true ground and foundation of all property, or of holding those things in severalty, which by the law of nature, unqualified by that of society, were common to all mankind.
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OCCUPANCY
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OCEAN, the vast mass of salt water which encompasses all parts of the globe, and by means of which, in the present improved state of navigation, an easy intercourse subsists between places the most distant. The ocean is distinguished into three grand divisions; the Atlantic Ocean, which divides Europe and Africa from A...
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OCEAN
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OCEANIDES, in fabulous history, sea-nymphs, daughters of Oceanus, from whom they received their names, and of the goddess Tethys or Thetis.
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OCEANIDES
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OCEANUS, in pagan mythology, the son of Coelus and Terra, the husband of Thetis, and the father of the rivers and fountains. The ancients called him the “father of all things,” imagining that he was produced by Humidity, which, according to Thales, was the first principle whence every thing was produced. Homer describe...
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OCEANUS
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OCELLUS the Lucanian, an ancient Greek philosopher of the school of Pythagoras, who lived before Plato. His work τrεp του ∏αντος, or the Universe, is the only production of his which has come down entire to us; it was written originally in the Doric dialect, but has been translated by another hand into the Attic. Willi...
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OCHRIDA, a town of Greece, in the province of Albania, the capital of a district of the same name, which it has derived from a lake near it, known to the ancients as the Lychnidus. It is situated on the declivity of Mount Maniana Petrin, on the great road formerly leading from Pella to Dyracchium; and near to it runs t...
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OCHRIDA
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OCHUS, a king of Persia, and son of Artaxerxes. He was cruel and avaricious, and, in order to strengthen himself on his throne, murdered all his brothers and sisters. His subjects revolted; but he reduced them to obedience, and added Egypt to his other dominions. Bagoas, his favourite eunuch, poisoned him for the insul...
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OCHUS
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OCKLEY, Simon, an eminent orientalist, and professor of Arabic in Cambridge, was born at Exeter in 1678. He was educated at Cambridge, and distinguished himself by uncommon skill in the oriental languages. Having taken a degree in divinity, he was, in 1705, presented by Jesus College with the vicarage of Swavesey, and ...
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OCKLEY
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OCKZAKOFF, or Oczakow, a city, once of great importance and much historical interest, in European Russia, belonging to the government of Cherson. It stood on the Black Sea, and, from its commanding the navigation of the rivers Bug and Dnieper, it was strongly fortified by the Turks, and considered as an important barri...
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OCKZAKOFF
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OCRA, a viscous vegetable substance well known in the West Indies, where it is used to thicken soup, particularly pepper pot, as well as for other purposes.
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OCRA
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OCRISIA, in fabulous history, the wife of Corniculus, and one of the attendants of Tanaquil, the wife of Tarquinius Priscus.
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OCRISIA
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OCTAETERIS, a cycle or term of eight years, in the Grecian chronology, at the conclusion of which three entire lunar months were added. The cycle was in use till Melon’s invention of the golden number or cycle of nineteen years.
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OCTAETERIS
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OCTAGON, or Octogon, in Geometry, is a figure of eight sides and angles. When all the sides and angles are equal, it is called a regular octagon, or one that may be inscribed in a circle.
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OCTAGON
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OCTAHEDRON, or Octaedron, in Geometry, one of the five regular bodies, consisting of eight equal and equilateral triangles.
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OCTAHEDRON
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OCTANT, the eighth part of a circle.
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OCTANT
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OCIAPLA, in matters of sacred literature, denotes a Polyglot Bible, consisting of eight columns, and as many different versions of the sacred text.
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OCIAPLA
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OCTATEUCH, an appellation given to the first eight books of the Old Testament.
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OCTATEUCH
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OCTAVE, in Music. See Interval.
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OCTAVE
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OCTAVIA, the daughter of Cains Octavius, and sister of Augustus Caesar. She was one of the most illustrious ladies of ancient Rome, being equally conspicuous for virtue and beauty. The death of Marcellus, her son by her first husband Claudius Marcellus, constantly preyed upon her mind, and shedied of grief or melanchol...
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OCTAVIA
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OCTAVIANUS, or Octavius Caesar, was the nephew of Julius Caesar the dictator, being the son of Accia, his sister, by Octavius, a senator; and he afterwards became emperor of Rome. He was born in the year of the city 691, during the consulship of Cicero. His uncle Julius Caesar adopted him, and left him the greater part...
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OCTAVIANUS
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OCTOBER, in Chronology, the eighth month of Romulus’s year, as the name implies; but the tenth in the calendar of Numa, Julius Caesar, &c. The senate gave this month the name of Faustinus, in compliment to Faustina, the wife of the Emperor Antoninus; Commodus wished it to be called Invictus ; and Domitian named it Domi...
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OCTOBER
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OCTOSTYLE, in the ancient architecture, is the face of an edifice adorned with eight columns.
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OCTOSTYLE
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ODDLY Odd. A number is said to be oddly odd when an odd number measures it by an odd number. Thus 15 is a number oddly odd, because the odd number 3 measures it by the odd number 5.
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ODDLY
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ODE, in Poetry, is a song or composition oroper to be sung.
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ODE
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ODENATUS, a celebrated prince of Palmyra, who very early inured himself to bear fatigues, and, by hunting leopards and wild beasts, accustomed himself to the labours of a military life. He was a faithful friend to the Romans; and when Aurelian had been taken prisoner by Sapor king of Persia, Odenatus warmly interested ...
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ODENATUS
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ODENSEE, a city of Denmark, the capital of the island ∣fFunen. It is situated on a canal connecting it with lake, and in connection with the sea in the Gulf of >tegestrand. It is tolerably built, with good streets, and ∣as a cathedral and seven other churches. It contains bout 800 houses, with 6500 inhabitants, who ar...
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ODENSEE
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ODER, a river of Germany, which has its source near a town of the same name in Silesia, and upon the confines of Moravia. It runs northward through that province, and then into the marche of Brandenburg and Pomerania, where it forms a large lake, and afterwards falls into the Baltic Sea by three mouths, between which l...
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ODER
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ODESSA, a city of Russia in Europe, within the circle of Tiraspol, in the government of Cherson. It owes its present state, and the rapid advance it has made, to its position on the north-western shore of the Black Sea, between the mouths of two great rivers, the Dniester and the Dnieper, and being not more than twenty...
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ODESSA
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ODEUM, in Grecian antiquity, a theatre for music built by Pericles, the inside of which was filled with seats and ranges of pillars, and on the outside the roof descended shelving downwards from a point in the centre, with many bendings, in imitation of the king of Persia’s pavilion. Here the musical prizes were conten...
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ODEUM
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ODIHAM, a market-town of the county of Hants, in the hundred of its own name, forty-two miles from London, and twenty-four from Winchester. It has a market, which is held on Saturday, and but little trade except what arises from its wharf on the Basingstoke Canal. A mile from it are the remains of an ancient castle, in...
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ODIHAM
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ODIN, in Mythology, called also, in the dialect of the Anglo-Saxons, Woden or Wodan, a name given by the ancient Scythians to their supreme god, and assumed, about seventy years before the Christian era, by Sigge, a Scythian prince, who conquered the northern nations, made great changes in their government, manners, re...
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ODIN
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ODOACER, according to Ennodius, was meanly born, and only a private man in the guards of the Emperor Augustulus, when, in the year 476, under the consulship of Basilicus and Armatus, the barbarians chose him for their leader. The barbarians thought that, as they often defended Italy, they had a right to at least part o...
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ODOACER
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ODOMETER, an instrument used for measuring the distance passed over in travelling.
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ODOMETER
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ODOROUS, or Odoriferous, appellations given to whatever smells strongly, whether they be fetid or agreeable, but chiefly to things the smell of which is brisk and pleasant.
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ODOROUS
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OECONOMICS, the art of managing the affairs of a family or community; and hence the person who takes care of the revenues and other affairs of churches, monasteries, and the like, is termed oeconomus.
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OECONOMICS
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OECUMENICAL signifies the same with general or universal ; as, oecumenical council, bishop, and the like.
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OECUMENICAL
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OEDENBURG, a city of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, in the province of the Farther Danube. It is the capital of a circle of the same name (called also Soprony-Barmegye in Hungarian), which extends over 1269 square miles, and comprehends three cities, forty-one markettowns, and 200 villages, with 185,700 inhabitants. ...
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OEDENBURG
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OEDIPUS, an unfortunate king of Thebes, whose history is partly fabulous. He flourished about 1266 before Christ. It is said he was given by his father to a shepherd, who was ordered to put him to death, in order to prevent the misfortunes with which he was threatened by an oracle. But the shepherd, being unwilling to ...
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OEDIPUS
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OEGWA, a town on the Gold Coast of Africa, situated upon the brow of an eminence, which rises by a gentle ascent to a considerable height, and is defended by rocks, against which the waves beat with the utmost violence.
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OEGWA
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OEHRINGEN, a city of the kingdom of Wirtemberg, in the circle of the Jaxt, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, in the territories of the mediatized Prince of Hohenlohe-Oehringen. It stands on the river Ohra, is the residence of the prince, and contains, besides the palace, 480 houses, with 3327 inhabitants, wh...
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OEHRINGEN
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OELAND, or Oland, an island in the Baltic Sea, apart of the province of Calmar, in Sweden. It is about seventy miles in length from north to south, and about seven miles in breadth from east to west. The western side is flat, and the eastern rather hilly; but the centre is a level consisting of tolerably good soil, whi...
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OELAND
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OELS, a circle of the Prussian province of Silesia, which has become remarkable on account of its having been bestowed on the Duke of Brunswick when expelled from his hereditary dominions by Bonaparte. It was formerly[7:16:325] a sovereignty, but is now mediatized; and the ancient race of its dukes has become extinct. ...
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OELS
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OENOPTAE, in Grecian antiquity, a kind of censors at Athens, who regulated entertainments, and took care that none drank too much or too little.
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OEREBRO, one of the provinces of the kingdom of Sweden, being the westernmost part of Westmanland. It extends in north latitude from 58. 40. to 60. 6. and in east longitude from 14. 6. to 15. 42., and contains a superficies of 3784 square miles. It is divided into four districts or bailiwicks, viz. Osterwick, Westreric...
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OEREBRO
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OETA, in Ancient Geography, a mountain of Thessaly, extending from Thermopylae westward to the Sinus Am-bracicus, and in some measure cutting at right angles the mountainous country stretching between Parnassus to the south and Pindus to the north.
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OETA
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OETTINGEN, a city of the kingdom of Bavaria, in the circle of the Rezat, which, with a district around it of seventy square miles and 12,500 inhabitants, forms a bailiwick belonging to the mediatized Prince of Oettingen-Oettingen. The city is the residence of the prince. It stands on the river Wernitz, is well built, a...
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OETTINGEN
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OFFENBACH, a city of the grand duchy of Hesse, in Germany, in the province of Darmstadt, and the capital of a bailiwick of the same name. It stands on the river Maine, and is well built, being on one side surrounded with a wall, and on the other with a ditch. It contains 530 houses, with 6950 inhabitants, who are chief...
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OFFENBACH
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OFFICIAL, in the canon law, an ecclesiastical judge, appointed by a bishop, chapter, or abbot, with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction of the diocese. Official is also a deputy appointed by an archdeacon as his assistant, and who sits as judge in the archdeacon’s court.
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OFFICIAL
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OFFICINAL, in Pharmacy, an appellation given to such medicines, whether simple or compound, as are required to be constantly kept in the apothecaries’ shops.
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OFFICINAL
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OFFING, or Offin, in nautical language, that part of the sea a good distance from shore, where there is deep water, and no need of a pilot to conduct the ship. Thus, if a ship from shore be seen sailing out to seaward, they say, “she stands for the offing and if a ship, having the shore near her, have another a good wa...
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OFFING
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OGHAMS, a particular kind of stenography, or writing in cipher, which was practised by the Irish. Of these there were three kinds. The first was composed of certain lines and marks, which derived their power from their situation and position, as they stood in relation to one principal line, over or under which they wer...
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OGHAMS
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OGIVE, in Architecture, an arch or branch of a Gothic vault, which, instead of being circular, passes diagonally from one angle to another, and forms a cross with the other arches. The middle, where the ogives cross each other, is called the key, being cut in the form of a rose, or a cal de lampe. The members or mouldi...
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OGIVE
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OGYGES, king of the Thebans, or, according to others, of Ogygia and Actae, afterwards called Boeotiaand Attica. He is recorded to have been the first founder of Thebes and Eleusis. The famous deluge happened in his time, in which some say he perished, along with all his subjects, 1796 before our era.
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OHANG Java, a cluster of islands in the Pacific Ocean, discovered by Tasman. Most of them are little better than large rocks. Lat. 4. 36. N.
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OHANG
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OHETEROA, an island about twelve miles in circumference, in the South Pacific Ocean, without either harbour or anchorage, and only a foul and rocky bay on the west coast. The inhabitants are active, well made, and of a dark complexion. They form circles round their arms and legs, but have no figures on the other parts ...
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OHETEROA
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OHEVAHOA, a steep and craggy island in the Southern Pacific Ocean, about fifteen leagues in circumference. Its deep valleys, and the sides of its hills, are clothed with trees and with verdure. It is situated in long. 139. 2. W. and lat. 9. 42. S.
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OHIO, one of the principal states in the North American union, is situated between 38.30. and 42.0. of north la [7:16:326]titude, and between 80.28. and 84. 42. longitude west from Greenwich. On the north it is bounded by Michigan and Lake Erie; on the east by Pennsylvania and the river Ohio; on the south by the Ohio R...
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OHIO
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OHITTAHOO, one of the Marquis of Mendoza’s Islands, in the Southern Pacific Ocean. It is about nine miles in length and twenty-one in circumference, and is intersected by a narrow ridge of hills, which are divided by deep, narrow, and fertile valleys, well watered, and adorned with trees. This, with other three islands...
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OHRDRUFF, a city of the duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, in Germany 7 , the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, which, besides the city, contains six villages, 1700 houses, and 7000 inhabitants. It belongs to Prince Hohenlohe-Neuenstein. The city stands near the borders of the Thuringian Mountains, on the small rive...
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