Glossographia, or, A dictionary interpreting all such hard words of whatsoever language now used in our refined English tongue with etymologies, definitions and historical observations on the same : also the terms of divinity, law, physick, mathematicks and other arts and sciences explicated / by T.B.

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OBacerate (obacero) to stop ones mouth, that he can∣not tell out his tale.

Obambulate (obambulo) to walk against another, or a∣bout, to range or stray over.

Obduction (obductio) a co∣vering or laying over.

Obdurate (obduratus) hard∣ned, also unrelenting.

Obedientials (from obedi∣entia) those that execute an Office under Superiors, and with obedience to their com∣mands.

Obeisance (Fr.) obedience; a dutiful observing of, an ob∣sequious yielding unto.

Obelise (from obelus or o∣beliscus) to make a long stroke in writing, to signifie some∣what to be put out; to race out. Mr. White.

Obelisk (obeliscus) a great square stone broad beneath, and waxing smaller towards the top. There were divers of these in Egypt consecrated in honor of the Sun; whereof four were principally erected by King Sochis, of wonderful height; many Obelisks were likewise at Rome in time of the Roman Emperors. The differ∣ence between an Obeliske and a Pyramid was this; the Obe∣lisk was all of one entire stone or piece, and therefore of no such height as the Py∣ramids, which were of divers stones; and again the Obe∣lisk is four-square, whereas the Pyramis may be of other figure.

Obequitate (obequito) to ride about.

Obesity (obesitas) fatness, grosness.

Objectator (Lat.) he that reproaches or lays to ones charge.

Obit (obitus) the death, dy∣ing or decay of one; the set∣ting or going down of the Sun. Also sometimes taken for an Elegy or Funeral Song.

Objuration (objuratio) a binding by oath.

Objurgation (objurgatio) a chiding, rebuking, reproving, or blaming.

Objurgatory (objurgatori∣us) pertaining to chiding, checking or rebuking.

Oblat (Fr.) a Souldier, who, grown impotent or mai∣med in Service, hath main∣tenance or the benefit of a Monks place assigned him in an Abbey; Also the means or place of a Monk, or such Soul∣dier.

Oblation (oblatio) an offer∣ing; an aid or Subsidy money. Oblations are thus defined in the Canon Law. Oblationes dicuntur quaecunque à piis fide∣libusque Christianis offeruntur Deo & Ecc••esiae, sive res soli, sive mobiles sint. Nee refert an legentur Testamento, an aliter donentur. Cap. Cler. 13. quaest. 2. See Duaren. de Sacr. Eccles. Minister. ac Benef. cap. 3.

Oblatration (oblatratio) a barking or making exclama∣tion against one.

Oblectation (oblectatio) re∣creation, delight, pleasure.

Oblesion (oblaesio) an hurt∣ing or annoying.

Obligatory (obligatorius) which bindeth or obligeth; also taken substantively, for an obligation.

Oblimation (oblimatio) a dawbing or covering over with mud or soft clay.

Obliquation (obliquatio) a crooking or turning away or aside.

Oblique (obliquus) crook¦ed, aw••y, bowed, bended traver.

Obliquity (obliquitas) crookedness, wriness.

Obliterate (oblitero) to scrape out, to put out of re∣membrance, to abolish.

Oblivion (oblivio) forgetful∣ness, unmindfulness.

Oblocutor (Lat.) an evil reporter, a backbiter, a de∣tracter.

Oblong, is a Geometrical term for a Quadrangular fi∣gure, whose length exceeds its breadth, of which the most proper (distinguished by their several terms) are these six. 1. Sesquialter, which is when half the height is added to its length. 2. Sesquitertia, when a third part is added to its length. 3. Sesquiquarta, when a fourth part is added. 4. Dia∣gonia, when the Oblong is in∣creased to the length of the Diagonal of the single Square. 5. Superbitiens tertias, so cal∣led (quasi super bis tertias) because the length thereof is encreased by two thirds. 6. Dupla, which is a double square. Enchir of fortif.

Obloquy (obloquium) a speaking against, an evil re∣port.

Obmutescence (from obmu∣tesco) a holding ones peace, a being silent or tongue-tied.

O••nection (obnectio) a fast knitting, as in marriage.

Obnoxiety (obnoxietas) ob∣noxiousness; liableness to dan∣ger, or to the lash, punish∣ment.

Obnoxious (obnoxius) that hath deserved to be punished, guilty, or condemned, in dan∣ger of, subject to.

Obnu••ilate (obnubilo) to make clouds, or dark with clouds, to make heavy and sad in countenance.

Obnunciate (obnuncio) to tell or shew ill tidings, or things unpleasant and un∣lucky.

Obnunci••tion (obnunciatio) a forbidding a thing upon foreknowledge, conjecture or likelihood of its ill success. As the antient Romans were wont to dissolve their Assem∣blies (which dissolution they called obnunciation) when so∣ever any evil token was seen or heard, either by the Magi∣strate or Augur. Godwin.

Obole (obolus) a Coyn, va∣riable according to the Coun∣try, with us it is a half-penny: Junius takes it for a penny farthing of our money; o∣thers, for an smal Coyn worth seven pence. Also a half-pen∣ny weight, twelve grains a∣mong Apothecaries, and four∣teen among Mintmen and Goldsmiths. Obolus terrae, five soot in breadth, and ten in length.

Obreption (obreptio) the creeping or stealing to a thing by crafty means, the getting or obtaining it by dissimulati∣on or private cousenage.

Obrogate (obrogo) to check or interrupt one in his tale, to gainsay. To obrogate a Law, is to proclaim a contrary Law, for taking away the former.

Obrumpent (obrumpens) breaking or bursting.

Obscene (obscoenus) all things that are to be eschew∣ed, filthy, unclean, unchaste, dishonest.

Obscenity (obscoenitas) vil∣lany in acts or words, ribal∣dry, baudiness, filthiness.

Obsecrat•• (obsecro) to be∣seech heartily, to pray, to de∣sire for Gods sake.

Obsequious (obsequiosus) officious, dutiful, serviceable, observant, obedient.

Observants or Observan∣tin••, a branch of the Order of Grey-Fryers, commonly called Franciscans, instituted by St. Francis of Assisium, di∣stinct from the Minims or Bonhomes, instituted by St. Francis de Paula. These Ob∣servants were instituted by one Bernard of Siena, about the year 1400. See Friers.

Obsession (obsessio) a lay∣ing siege, a beleaguring or compassing about: A man is said to be obsest, when an evil

spirit hants him, troubling him often, and seeking oppor∣tunity to enter into him.

Obsibilate (obsibilo) to make a whistling noise, as Trees stirred with winds.

Obsidian stone (obsidianus) a precious stone, mentioned in Pliny. Gondibert.

Obsidional (obsidionalis) of or pertaining to a siege.

The Obsidional Crown (Coro∣na obsidionalis) was given one∣ly to him that relieved a City or Town besieged: This Crown was made of green Leaves, or of the Grass and Herbs of the same Field, where the enemy had been over-thrown, or forced to flight. The great Quintus Fabius re∣ceived this Crown, for de∣fending and delivering Rome from the siege of Hannibal.

Obsolete (obsoletus) decay∣ed, old, grown out of use, worn as a Garment, when it is thredbare.

Obstetricate (obstetrico) to do the office of a Midwife.

Obst••trici••us (from obste∣tricium) pertaining to the Mi∣nistery of Midwives, or their Feat.

Ostipate (obstipo) to stop chinks.

Obstreperous (obstreperus) that makes a noise, roars, or crys out against.

Obstrigillation (obstrigilla∣tio) a reprehension, a resisting or repugning.

Obstruction (obstructio) a shutting or stopping up, a ••amming up.

Obstupifie (obstupefacio) to make abashed or astonied.

Obtenebrate (obtenebro) to make cloudy or dark.

Ob••est (obtestor) humbly to beseech, to desire for Gods sake.

Obtestation (obtestatio) an humble desiring, a taking God to witness for a thing, a hear∣ty beseeching.

Obticence (obticentia) si∣lence, holding ones peace.

Obtorted (obtortus) wreath∣ed, wrested or wrenched.

Obtrectation (obtrectatio) detraction, depravation, back-biting, slandering.

Obtrite (obtritus) worn, bruised, trod under foot.

Obturation (obturatio) a stopping or shutting up.

Obtuse (obtusus) dull, dim, blunt, without spirit.

Obvention (obventio) a meeting with, a coming a∣gainst, hapning, or chancing unto; Also revenue or rents.

Obvert (obverto) to turn against, back, or about.

Obviate (obvio) to meet with one, also to resist or with∣stand.

Obvious (obvius) that which meets with one, meeting in the way; gentle and easie.

Obumbrate (obumbro) to shadow over and over; also to make dark, obscure, or dim.

Obuncous (obuncus) very crooked.

Obundation (obundatio) a flowing against.

Obvolate (obvolo) to flie against.

Occident (occidens) the go∣ing down of the Sun; the West part of the world. And (adjectively) declining, decay∣ing, falling, going down.

Occidental (occidentalis) pertaining to the West, west∣ern, westernly.

Occiduous (occiduus) that goes down, that will decay.

Occipital (from occiput) be∣longing to the Noddle, or hin∣der part of the head.

Occision (occisio) a slaugh∣ter or death of men or Cat∣tel, a killing or slaying.

Occlusion (occlusio) a shut∣ting up fast, a stopping.

Occular. See Ocular.

Occulcation (occulcatio) a treading on or spurning.

Occult (occultus) hid, privy, not known very secret.

Occultation (occultatio) a hiding, or keeping close, a concealing.

Occupative (occupativus) that is busied, employed, or Possessed of, or that busieth. An Occupative Field, is that which, being deserted by its proper owner or tiller, is possessed by another.

Occurre (occurro) to meet with, come in place, be in the way, or offer it self.

Oceanick Oceanine (oceaninus) be∣longing to the Ocean or main Sea, encom∣passing the world.

Ochlocracy (Gr.) a kinde of Government, wherein the multitude or common rout bear rule.

Ocious (ociosus) idle, care∣less, restful, at ease, that hath little to do, unemployed.

Octangular (octangulus) that hath eight corners, eight-cornered.

Octave (octavus) an eighth in Musick, a proportion or the number of eight.

Octaves (octavae) an usual term in Courts of Justice, and in the Roman Calender, and signifies the eighth day, next after some principal Feasts of the year, called also the Ʋtas. D. Aug. Epist. 118. See Ʋtas.

Octennial (octennalis) that is done every eighth years.

Octonary (octonarius) the same with Octave.

Octogon (Gr.) a figure con∣sisting of eight Angles.

Octostic. See Ogdastic.

Ocular (ocularius) pertain∣ing to the eyes or sight.

Oculate (oculatus) full of eyes or holes, quick of sight, circumspect; as Oculate Faith, that is, confirmed by the eye-sight, or such a Faith as repre∣sents the thing believed, as it were to the eye; a seeing Faith.

Oculist, one skilled in cu∣ring the diseases of the eyes, or in preserving the eye-sight.

Oculus Christ•• (so called because it conduces much to the cure of the infirmities of the eyes) an Herb called Wilde Clary. Gerard.

Ode (oda) a Song, or Poem pronounced with singing.

Odelet (Dimin. of Ode) a small or short Ode.

Odible (odibilis) odious, worthy to be hated.

Odor (Lat.) savor, sent, smell.

Odoramincu•• (from Odo∣ramen, inis) smelling sweet, fragrant, odoriferous, pertain∣ing to odor.

Odoriferous (odorifer) sweet in savor, bringing spices and sweet smelling things.

Oeconomie (oeconomia) the guiding and ordering of things pertaining to houshold; also an order in doing a thing.

Oeconomical (oeconomicus) pertaining to the order or go∣vernment of an house or fa∣mily.

Oeconomist, one that or∣ders or rules a family.

Oecumenical (oecumenicus) universal, general, pertaining to the whole world.

Oed••stine (oedastinus) that is cunning in the knowledge of weights and measures.

Oedematous (from Oede∣ma) full of or subject to a slegmatick and painless swel∣ing, which being pressed down with the finger, retains the impression thereof, and is cal∣led an Oedeme. Br.

Oenopolist (oenopola) a Vintner or seller of Wine.

Offertory (offertorium) an offering, or place where offer∣ings are offered or kept; also a part of the Mass so called.

Official. (officialis) of or be∣longing to offices or duties. It is a word diversly used; some apply it to such as have the sway of temporal Justice, others to the Minister or Ap∣paritor of a Magistrate or Judge. In the Cannon Law i•• is especally taken for him, to whom any Bishop generally commits the charge of his Spi∣ritual Jurisdiction; and in this sence, one in every Diocess is (Officialis Pricipalis) whom the old Statutes and Laws of this Nation call Chancelors. An. 32. Hen. 8. cap. 15. And are sometimes termed Commissa∣ries; the difference of the two powers, you may read in Lindwo••od, tit. De sequest. posses. cap. 1. Verbo Officialis. But this word Official in our Sta∣tutes and Common Law, sig∣nifies him whom the Arch∣deacon substitutes for execut∣ing his Jurisdiction.

Officinator (Lat.) an Ar∣tificer or Crastsman. Vitruvius (lib. 6. cap. 11.) distinguishes the Officinator from the Archi∣tect; this designs the Idea of the whole work; that is but a second superintendent over all the under-Art sins.

Officine (officina) a Shop or Work-house.

Offuscate (offusco) to make black or dark, to shadow or make dim or duskish.

Ogdastick (ogdastichon) a Sentence or Epigram com∣prized in eight verses, or a Stanza of eight verses.

Ogive or Ogee (Fr. Au∣give or Ogive) a wreath, cir∣clet

or round band in Archi∣tecture.

Oisteriot, a weed so cal∣led, as it were, laid among Oisters. Min.

Oke, a measure among the Turks, near the bigness of our quart. How.

Oleaginous (oleaginus) of an Olive-tree, or of the colour of an Olive-tree.

Oleity (oleitas) the time of gathering Olives, or the Olives when they are gather∣ed to make oyl of; also oyli∣ness.

Olfactory (olfactorium) a Posie or Nose gay, any thing to smell to.

Oleron Laws, or Laws of Oleron; so called for that they were made by K. Richard the First, when he was there. Cok Inst. par. 1. p. 260 b. This Oleron is an Island near Rochel, belonging to the French.

Olidous (olidus) which hath a strong savor, whether good or bad; rank of smell.

Oligarchy (oligarchia) the state of a Commonwealth, where a few persons, and those properly of the wealthi∣er sort, have all the autho∣rity.

Olimpiad. See Olympiad.

Oliver, a name fetched from the peace-bringing O∣live, as Daphnis and Laurence, from the triumphant Laurel.

Olivaster, a wilde Olive tree; also like, or of the co∣lour of an Olive; in which last sence the Lord Bacon uses it in his Nat. Hist.

Oliviferous (olivifer) which bears or brings forth Olives.

Olivity (olivitas) the time of gathering Olives, or ma∣king Oyl; see Oleity.

Olla (Span.) a Pot to boil meat in; and by figure is ta∣ken for the meat it self boiled in it.

Olla podrida, a Hotchpot of several ingredients; Mr. Howel, in one of his Letters describes it thus. The Olla po∣drida hath Intellectuals and Sences: Mutton, Beef, and Ba∣con, are to her as the Will, Ʋn∣derstanding and Memory are to the Soul; Cabbage, Turnips, Artichocks, Potatoes, and Dates, are her five Sences, and Pepper the common Sence: She must have Marrow to keep life in her, and some Birds to make her light, and by all means she must be adorned with some chains of Sausages, &c. This dish is much in request with us, and is commonly pronounced Ollia; the second l in Spanish being melted in the pronunciation like an i. It hath some Analogy with that the French call a Bisque.

Olympiad (olympias, adis) the space of five years, or of eighty moneths, thirty days to a moneth, which was the Epoch of the Grecians; and so used from the time of celebra∣ting their Olympick Games, which was every fifth year, and the interval was called an Olympiad. See more of this in Mr. Greg. de Aeris & Epoch. c 7.

Olympick Games (olym∣pia) Games instituted by Her∣cules in honor of Jupiter; they were celebrated every fifth year in the Plains of Elis, a Ci∣ty of Peloponnesus, and the Exercises were five; Running, Wrestling, Leaping, Quoiting, and Whorle-bats. The reward to those that overcame in these feats of activity was nothing but a Garland of Olive bran∣ches, lest covetousness, rather then vertue, should make them strive for victory. They took name from the City O∣lympia, otherwise Pisa. Sir Wat. Ral. lib. 2. fol. 490.

Olympias (Gr.) heavenly; a womans name, but some use Olympha.

Ombrage. See Ʋmbrage.

Omega (Gr. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. O magnum) the last letter in the Greek Alphabet; and by a Metaphor taken for the last part or end of any thing. See Alpha.

Omelet (Fr.) a Pancake of Eggs, a Froise.

Ominous (omninosus) lucky or unlucky, that portends good or ill luck.

Omneity (from omnis) the all-being of a thing. Rel. Med.

Omnifarious (omnifarius) sundry, divers, all manner of ways.

Omniferous (omnifer) that beareth or bringeth forth all things, or of all kinds.

Omnigenous (omnigenus) of every kind.

Omnimode (omnimodus) of all manners or fashions, of every way.

Omniparent (omniparens) which bears or brings forth all things; Father or Mother of all things.

Omniregencie (from omnis & rego) the having the sole rule or authority in ones hands.

Omnipotencie (omnipoten∣tia) almightiness.

Omnipresent (omnipresens) that is present every where.

Omniscient Omniscious (omniscius) that knows all things.

Omnitenent (omnitenens) that contains all things.

Omnitenerant, that travels every where, that journeys into all places.

Omnivagant (omnivagus) wandring every where, that runs up and down in all places.

Omnivalent (omnivalens) that is able to do all things.

Omnivolent (omnivolus) that wills or desires all things.

Omnivorous (omnivorus) that devoures and eats all kind of things.

Omologie (omologia) a con∣gruence, proportion, or agree∣ableness; confession.

Onagre (onager) a wild Ass; also an Engine to fling or shoot great stones, as the Balista did arrows.

Onerate (onero) to load, charge or burthen, to over∣charge, to weary.

Onocrotal (onocrotalus) a Bird like a Swan, braying

like an Ass; thought to be a Bittour.

Onomancie (onomantia) di∣vination by names; also the skill of repeating many names by the art of memory. The Pythagoreans judged the even number of vowels in names to signifie imperfections in the left sides of men, and the odd number in the right.

Onomantical, pertaining unto, or skilful in that kind of Divination.

Onamatopeious, pertain∣ing to the Figure Onomatopoeia, which is a faining a name from any kind of sound.

Onymancy (Gr.) Divinati∣on by oyl and wax.

Onyx (Gr.) a precious stone found in the mountains of Arabia of the colour of a mans nail. Some write, that it is congealed of a juyce drop∣ping from a tree called Onycha, which is the cause it smels sweet being cast into the fire; also that it is often found with divers pictures in it, being easi∣ly therein fashioned, before the stone be throughly hard∣ned. This stone is called by some the Chalcidonie.

Opal (opalum) a precious stone of divers colours, where∣in appears the fiery shining of the Carbuncle, the purple co∣lour of the Amethyst, and the greenness of the Emerald very strangely mixed together. Plin. lib. 37. ca. 6.

Opacitie (opacitas) shadow of trees, umbrage.

Opaque Opacous (opacus) sha∣dowed, in the shade, dark, obscure, black.

Opera (Lat.) a work, la∣bor; diligence, study, &c. In Italy it signifies a Tragedy, Tragi-Comedy, Comedy or Pastoral, which (being the studied work of a Poet) is not acted after the vulgar manner, but performed by Voyces in that way, which the Italians term Recitative, being like∣wise adorned with Scenes by Perspective, and extraordina∣ry advantages by Musick. The common Plays (which are not Opera's) are performed ex tempore by the Actors, and are but in the nature of Farces, wanting the above-mentioned adornments.

Operarious (operarius) pertaining to the workman, done with labor.

Operator (Lat.) he that works; a workman.

Operiment (operimentum) a covering.

Opertaneous (opertaneus) done within doors, in secret or in covert.

Ophthalmie (ophthalmia) an inflammation of the utter∣most skin of the eye called A∣duata, proceeding either of fulness of the body, or of the sharp cholerick humor, or of gross humors, and windiness puffing up the place. Tho.

Opiferous (opifer) which aids or helps, succoring.

Opifice (opificium) work, or workmanship.

Opimous (opimus) fat, gross, in good liking or plight; rich, plentiful; well fur∣nished.

Opinable (opinabilis) that is or may be conceived in o∣pinion. Bac.

Opinator (Lat.) a suppo∣ser, one that never affirms a∣ny thing.

Opinative or Opiniative (opinatus) that stands in his own opinion, addicted to an opinion, apt to have o∣pinions, wedded to his own humor, wilful.

Opiniatrety (from the Fr. opiniastrete) opiniativeness, obstinacy a head-strong main∣taining of, or persistance in an ill opinion.

Opiparous (opiparus) sum∣ptuous, magnificent, very rich, royal.

Opisthograph (opisthogra∣phum) a book written on the back-side, or paper written on both sides.

Opisthographical, that is written upon on both sides.

Opitulat•• (opitulor) to help, succor, or aid.

Opobalsamum (Gr.) the Gum of the Balm tree. See Balm.

Oppication (oppicatio) a co∣vering with pitch.

Opium (Lat.) or Opiate, the juyce of black Poppy, sold dry by Apothecaries. It is sometimes used in Physick to cause sleep, or to asswage ex∣cessive pain, but then it must be mixed with other things, and given with great discre∣tion; for, taken alone, it will cast one into a deadly sleep; being cold and dry in the fourth degree. Bul.

Oppidan (oppidanus) a Citizen or Townsman.

Oppignorate (oppignoro) to lay in pledge, to gage or pawn.

Oppilation (oppilatio) an obstruction or stopping the Li∣ver, or other chief entrals.

Oppilative (oppilatus) ob∣structive, stopping, shut up.

Oppletion (oppletio) a fil∣ling up.

Opportune (opportunus) meet, for the purpose, fit, con∣venient, in due time, and as it ought to be.

Opposite (oppositum) a con∣trary. Aristotle makes four kinds of Opposites; first, those that are relativè opposita, as the Husband and Wife, the Master and Servant, &c. which have reference each to other. Secondly, those which are Con∣traria; as Right and Wrong; Ignorance, and Science, &c. Thirdly, Those that are priva∣tivè opposita, as Light and Darkness, Sight and Blindness, which succeed and deprive one another. The fourth and last kind of Opposites are those which in Propositions and Clauses are Contradicentia, the one affirming, and the other negative, &c. J. Doderidge.

Opprobrious (opprobriosus) reproachful in words, upbrai∣ding, reviling, taunting.

Oppugn (oppugno) to as∣sault, to batter, to lay seige un∣to, to fight against; Also to reason against a thing ear∣nestly.

Opsimathie (opsimathia) a learning when one is old.

Opsonator (Lat.) a buyer or purveyor of meats; a Ca∣ter, a Manciple.

Optable (optabilis) that is to be desired, wished, or look∣ed for.

Optation (optatio) choyce, opinion, wishing, desiring.

Optative (optatum) a wish or desire. It is also used ad∣jectively, as wishing for or that desireth.

Optick Optical (opticus) pertain∣ing to the sight. Optick sinews are those which bring the vertue of seeing to the eyes. So the Optick Sci∣ence is that by which the rea∣son of sight is known; Art speculative.

Optimacy (from optima∣tes) a Government in a Com∣monwealth, by noble or other chief persons.

Optimitie (optimitas) utili∣ty, great profit, excellency.

Option (optio) choyce, or election.

Optive. See Adoptive.

Opulencie (opulentia) riches, abundance, plenty, wealth.

Opulent (opulentus) rich, plentiful, wealthy, abundant.

Opuscule (opusculum) a little work, a little labor.

Or (Fr.) Gold; In Heral∣dry it signifies gold colour.

Ore (ora) the end or ex∣treme part of any thing; a Region, Land or Country: Thus Lempsters Ore is that fer∣tile part of Herefordshire, which lyes about two miles round that Town.

Oracle (oraculum) a Sen∣tence, Council or Answer gi∣ven by God; also a notable say∣ing or judgement; a Prophe∣sie or Prediction. Among the Gentiles these Oracles were but illusions of the Devil, who answered for the most part doubtfully in Idols, to questi∣ons made to him. As a great Prince, going to the Wars, and demanding of the Oracle what success he should have, had this ambiguous answer given him,

Ibis redibis nunquam per bella peribis.

Which he thus commaing, Ibis, redibis, nunquam per &c. ventured on the War, and was slain.

There were two principal places of Oracles, one of Am∣mon in Lybia, the other at Delphi in Booetia; at the first Jupiter, in this Apollo were said to give answers. These Oracles ceased at the coming of our Saviour.

Oracular, pertaining to an Oracle.

Oral (from Os, oris) per∣taining to the Mouth, Visage,

face, look, favor or voyce.

Oratory (oratorium) a place wholly dedicated to prayer; a Closet, a private Chappel to pray in.

Oratorians, a Religious Fraternity or Order instituted the last age by St. Philip Neri∣us, a Florentine Priest; They took name from the place first frequented by them for their exercises of Preaching, and Catechising, which was the Oratory of St. Hierom in Rome.

Orbation (orbatio) a depri∣ving or bereaving one of his goods, or of any other thing; poverty.

Orbical Orbicular (orbicus) round like a circle, cir∣cular, Globie.

Orbiculated (orbiculatus) made round in the form of a circle or compass.

Orbitie (orbitas) the want of children on the Parents part, the want of parents on the childrens part; any want or privation.

Orchal (orca) a stone like Allum used sometimes by Dy∣ers to raise a red colour.

Ordael or Ordeal (ordali∣um) signifies as much as judge∣ment, and is compounded (as some say) of two Saxon words Or, a privatitive, as [A] in Greek, and dael, i. ••ars, q Expers. But it is artificially u∣sed for a kind of purgation, practised in antient times, whereby the party purged was judged Expers criminis, called in the Common Law, Purgatio vulgaris, and utterly condemned by Pope Steven the second. There was of this four sorts, one by Kampfight (not unlike our Duel.) The second called Fire-Ordeal, which was for the accused to pass blindfold with bare feet over hot Plowshares, &c. (of which see Mr. Fullers hist. Cent. 11. p. 141.) The third was hot water-Ordeal, by put∣ting his arms up to the elbows in seething water, &c. The fourth was cold water-Ordeal, like the late used trial of Witches. Of these at large, see Verstegan, p. 50, 51. and Lambert in his explication of Saxon words, Verbo Ordalium, where he expresses such su∣perstitions as were used in it. Mr. Manwood part 1. pag. 15. But Hotom. especially, disput. de feud. ca 41, &c.

Ordalian Law, was that Law which instituted the Or∣dael aforesaid, and was long before the Conquest, but did continue of force in England till the time of King John, in whose days it was abrogated; as Pol. Vir. Holinshed & Suppli∣mentum Chronicorum, witness.

Ordinal (ordinale is pro∣perly a Book of Direction for Bishops, to give holy Or∣ders, and for other things be∣longing to their Function; but sometimes used for a Book containing the Orders and Constitutions of a Religious House or Colledge.

Ordinary (ordinarius) though in the Civil Law, whence the word is taken, it signifies any Judge that has authority to take knowledge of Causes in his own right; as he is a Magistrate and not by deputation, yet in our Common Law it is most com∣monly and usually taken for him that hath ordinary Ju∣risdiction in causes Ecclesiasti∣cal. See Brook and Linwood hoc titulo.

Oreads (oreades) Fairies of the mountains.

Oredelf, is a liberty where∣by a man claims the Ore found in his own ground. It proper∣ly signifies Ore lying under ground; as a Delf of Coal, is coal lying in veins under ground, before it is digged up.

Orfraies (aurifrisium) friz∣led cloth of gold, made and used in England both before and since the Conquest, worn both by the Clergy and the Kings themselves, as may ap∣pear out of Math. Paris, where he speaks of the Ornaments sent by the Abbots of England to the Pope; and also by a Re∣cord in the Tower, where the King commands the Templars to deliver such Jewels, Gar∣ments, and Ornaments, as they had of his in keeping; a∣mong which he names Dalma∣ticum velatum de Orefreis, that is a damask garment guarded with Orfraies. Of old the Jack∣ets or Coat Armors of the Kings Guard, were also term∣ed Orfrais, because they were covered with Goldsmiths work.

Orgal, The Lees of wine dried, used by Dyers, to make their cloth drink in their co∣lour throughly.

Organical (organicus) that which consists of divers sub∣stantial parts and members; instrumental, used as a means; pertaining to Instruments or Organs. Our body is said to be organical, because the Soul per∣forms her operations by the parts thereof, as instruments.

Organist (organista) an Organ-player.

Orgeis An. 31. Ed. 3. Stat. 3. ca. 2. is the greatest sort of North-Sea fish, now adays cal∣led Organ Ling.

Orgies (orgia) rude Cere∣monies instituted by the Poet Orpheus, to be kept every third year to the honor of Bacchus.

Orient (oriens) the East part where the Sun riseth.

Oriental (orientalis) of or belonging to the East.

Orientalitie, the lustre of the East, the being Eastward of a thing.

Orifice (orificium) the mouth, brim, or enterance in∣to any thing; the outward hole in a wound.

Oriflambe (oriflammeus) the great and holy Standard of France, having in the top a purple Ensign or Flag, born at first onely in Wars against In∣fidels; But afterwards used in all other Wars, and at length

utterly lost in a Battel against the Flemmings. Cotg.

Origin or Original (origo) an off∣spring, Pede∣gree or birth; a Stock or kindred; a beginning or foun∣tain; An Original is also the first, authentick, or true draught of a writing.

Original sin. See Venial.

Oriol (oriolum) the little waste room next the Hall in some Houses, and Monasteries, were some particular persons dined.

Orison (from the Fr. Orai∣son) prayer; also speech or communication.

Ornomancy (Gr.) divinati∣on by the moving of birds.

Orphean, belonging to Or∣pheus the Thracian Poet, who is feigned to have plaid so ex∣cellently on the Harp, that he drew Stones, Woods and Trees after him, &c. Hence, an Orphean Harp.

Orque (orca) a Hulk or huge Ship; Also a Sea-mon∣ster so called, enemy to the Whale.

Orpiment Orpment (auripigmen∣tum) a soft yellow kind of Arsenick, like Brimstone, found very deep in the earth; commonly ta∣ken for Ratsbane.

Orthodoxal Orthodox (orthodoxus) that hath a good or right opinion, faith•• or belief.

Orthodoxie (orthodoxia) the right opinion of faith.

Orthogonal (orthogonius) that hath right or even cor∣ners.

Orthographie (orthogra∣phia) the form of true writing, or the art of writing words truly; As, to lose (perdo;) to loose or unty (solve.) Lest (as lest such a thing should hap∣pen (ni,) and least, as the least of all (minimus) &c. It is also a plat of building, drawn out with the figure or order of the whole work.

Orthographize (from or∣thographia) to write or use true Orthographie.

Ortive (ortivus) East, east∣erly; as the Ortive Sun, the Sun rising.

Osanna. See Hosanna.

Oscillate (oscillo) to move the mouth, to bow down, to way or swing up and down.

Oscian Play, was a light sport among the antient Ro∣mans, pleasing the peoples humors. Tacit.

Oscines (oscines, ab os & cano) are those kind of birds, by whose chirping, singing o•• voyces the Augures foretold things to come; As the Crow, Pie, Chough, &c.

Saepe sinistra cava praedixit ab ilice Cornix.

Virg.

To this kinde of Divination may be ascribed that old wo∣manish observation with us, That when the Pie chat∣ters,

we shall have strangers.

Oscitation (oscitatio) yawn∣ing or gaping; negligence or idleness.

Osculate (osculo) to kiss, to love heartily, to imbrace.

Ossicle (ossiculum) a little bone.

Ossifrage (ossifraga) a kind of Eagle, having so strong a Beak, that therewith she breaks bones, and is therefore called a bone-breaker or Os∣sifrage.

Ossifragant (ossifragus) that breaketh bones.

Ossuary (ossuaria) a shrine or like thing where bones are kept; a Charnel house.

Ostensional (ostentionalis) a Souldier attending the Prince in publique shews.

Ostent (ostentum) every thing that comes against na∣ture; a monster, wonder or strange thing.

Ostent (ostentus, ab ostendo) a pointing at, or mocking; a telling, declaring or shew∣ing.

Ostentation (ostentatio) bragging, vaunting, shewing forth vain-glory, boasting.

Ostentatitious (ostentatiti∣us) set out for shew or vain-glory.

Ostentiferous (ostentifer) that which brings monsters or strange sights.

Ostiarie (ostiarius) an Of∣ficer to keep unworthy per∣sons out of the Church, a Door-keeper.

Ostomachie (ostomachia) a playing or fighting with bones.

Ostracism (ostracismus) a kind of banishment among the Athenians for ten years, which was done by delivering a shell (ostratos) with the con∣demned persons name writ∣ten in it; it was used not so much to punish other offen∣ces, as to abate the immode∣rate power of Noblemen, and was ordained first by Cliste∣nes, who for his labor was first condemned.

Ostration (from ostratos) shelliness for being made of shells. Br.

Ostriferous (ostrifer) that breeds or brings forth Oy∣sters.

Oswold (Germ.) House-Ruler or Steward; for Wold in old English, and high Dutch is a Ruler; but for this the Normans brought in Le Despencer, now Spencer. The holy life of St. Oswold King of Northumberland, who was in∣cessantly in prayer, hath given much honor to this name.

Otraqua, a kind of drink in the Mollucca's and Phi∣lipines that comes from a nut.

Oval (ovalis) belonging to the triumph called Ovation; also round-shaped like an egg.

Ovation (ovatio, ab ovo, as) a smal triumph of a Prince or Captain for a Victory obtained without slaughter of men, in which he did either go on foot or ride on horseback with his Souldiers about him, singing

or shouting for joy, and wear∣ing on his head, a Garland of Myrtle. Tho. See Triumph.

Ovation (ovatio, ab ovum) the season when hens lay eggs, or a laying of eggs.

Ouch (Sax.) a kind of col∣lar of gold, or such like orna∣ment, which women did wear about their necks. It is men∣tioned An. 24. H. 8. c. 13. And is sometimes used for a Boss or button of gold. Chauc.

Overt. See Loover.

Oviarie (oviaria) a flock of sheep.

Oviparous-Animals (ovi∣parae) Birds, Beasts, or Fishes that breed by eggs or spawn.

Ounce (uncia) twelve oun∣ces make a pound weight Troy; sixteen, a pound Averdupois) twenty penny weight make an Ounce; twenty four grains make a Penny weight; twenty Mites make a Grain; twenty four Droits make a Mite; twenty Perits make a Droit; twenty four Blanks make a Perit. Act of Parl. 1649.43.

Ourage (Fr. ouvrage) a work; also work or labor.

O••lawrie (utlagaria) is the loss or deprivation of the benefit belonging to a Subject, that is, of the Kings protection and the Realm. Bract. l. 3. tr. 2. c. 11. num. 1, & 3. Foris facit ut∣lagatus omnia quae pacis sunt.

Owen (Lat. Audoenus) if it be the same with St. Owen of France. But the Britans will have it from old King Onous Father in Law to Hercules; others, from Eugenius, i. noble, or well-born; Certain it is the Country in Ireland called Ter-oen, is in Latin Records Terra Eugenii, and the ••ri•• Priests know no Latin for their Oen but Eugenius, as Rotheri∣cus for Rocke. And Sir Owen Ogle in Latin Records (as I am informed) was written Euge∣nius Ogle. Cam.

Oxgang of Land (Bovala terrae) six Ox-gangs of land seem to be so much as six Oxen will plough. Cromp. Iurisd. fol. 220. But an Ox-gang seems properly to be spoken of such as lies in Gainour. Old nat. br. fol. fol. 117. Mr. Skene de ver∣bor. signif. verbo (bovata terrae) saith an Ox-gang of land should always contain thirteen Acres, and that four Oxen-gates extended to a pound land of old extent.

Oxymel (Gr.) a Potion or syrrup made of honey, vine∣gar and water sod together, good to cut and cleanse gross flegmatick humors; some∣times there are boyled certain roots and seeds with it, and then it is called Oxymel compo∣si••um; sometimes it made with honey, vinegar and the Sea Onion, and then it is na∣med Oxymel Scylliticum, which also is of two sorts, to wit, sim∣ple and compound. See Dio∣scor. l. 1. c. 22. Galen l. 4. de sa∣nit. tuend.

Oxyporopolist (oxyporopo∣la) he that sells meat in sharp sawce or syrrup.

Oyer and Terminer (au∣diendo & terminando) in true French Oüir and Terminer) is, in the intendment of our Law, a Commission especially granted to certain persons, for hearing and determining one or more causes. This was wont to be in use upon some sudden outrage or insurrecti∣on in any place. Crompt. Ju∣risd. fo. 131. See Assize.

Oyes (a corruption from the Fr. Oyez, i. hear ye) and is used by Criers in our Courts of Law, when they make Procla∣mation of any thing.

Ozena (Gr.) a disease or sore in the Nose, causing a stinking savour.