OAT 
founder himfelf would have difpenfed with. In onne@ion 
with the fubje& of oaths, the obligation of fubfcription to 
articles ‘of religion is confidered ; for which we refer to 
article SuBsCRIPTION. naa 8 Principles of Moral and Po. 
litical Philofophy, vo 
ATH is alfo aed for a folemn alee faithfully to exe- 
cute or obferve fomething. See Jur 
a this fenfe we fay, fate oaths, the ak of SUPREMACY, 
of ALLEGIANCE, oath of AzB which fee 
promotions, within the 
tume anal by law, and for allowing farther time for that 
purpofe. 
rpo 
Kings and princes {wear to the performance of the treaties 
they make ; though, anciently, they did not {wear of them- 
eles, ig others {wore in their name. 
» Cor dpe is, by 1 W. & M. fat. 3. cap. 6. to 
the arch- 
i h 
tutes in parliament agreed on an laws aud cuftoms o 
the fame? The king or queen fhall fay, I folemnly 
promife fo to do. Archbifhop or bifhop. Will you, 
our power, caufe law and juices in mercy, to be exe- 
ented in all your judgments? Kin queen. I wil 
“Archbifhop or bifhop. Will you, to the utmoft of your 
power, maintain the laws of God, the true profeffion of 
te a ie and the Proteftant reformed religion, eftablifhed 
by the law? And will you preferve unto the bifhops and 
clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to 
their charge, all {uch rights and privileges, as by law do 
dati to them. or any of them? King 
promife to do. After this the king or 
g his or her hand upon the holy gofpels, fhall 
fay, The things which I have here before promifed, I will 
perform and krep. So aa me i And then fhall kifs 
the book. Blackft. Com 
Oatu ex Officio, an oath ve ailed, oak was formerly 
made ufe “OF in the {piritual courts, as we 
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5 
all perfons were obliged to 
bare fufpicion, if the commiflioners 
thought proper to proceed againft the 
any fuppofed ecclefié Rical -enormities. 
this ex 
alfo enaéted by ftatute 13 Car. I]. ft. : 
fhall not - lawful fur any bithep 2 or ecc! icfiathical ie to 
tender to any r-rfon the oath ‘ex officio,” or any other 
oath which the party may be charged or compelled to con- 
OBA 
fefs, accufe, or purge rere of any criminal matter.’’ (See 
Ex OrrFicio.) But this doth not extend to aga in a civik 
fuit, and therefore it is mall the pratice, both in the fpi- 
aes courts, and in oe i demand the serial a eee 
the party himfelf upon o 
See Pa 
OATMEAL. (See Oar.) The felling of corrupt oat- 
meal is ges by ftatute, which fhall be forfeited for the 
See gx Ed. I. 
fecond offen 
OAXACA. wee GUAXACA. 
OAXIS, in easel Ge oer ap a river of Afia, in Mefo- 
potamia.—Alfo, r of Scyth 
> or Oax a a town on we northern fide of the 
ifle of Crete. It was the capital of a kingdom, which had 
its appropriate fovereign, faid to have been founded by 
Oaxus, the fon of Apollo. 
OAYCACHI, in Geography, a town of sry scence 
in the audience of Quito; 25 miles E.N.E. 0 
OAZY, or Oasy Ground, aname given by he feamen 
to foft, flimy, or muddy ground. 
OB, in Geography. See On 
A, a town of Perfia, in the province of Adirbeitzan, 
on the weft coaft of the Cafpian fea; 150 miles N.E. of 
auris. 
OBACH, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg; 3 miles 
N.W. of Schweinfust. 
OBADIAH, or the Prophecy of OBADIAN, a canonical 
book of the Old Teftament, which is contained in a fingle 
chapter, and is partly an invective againft the cruelty of the 
Edomites, who mocked and derided the children of Ifrael, 
as they paffed into captivity ; and, with other enemies, their 
confederates, invaded and oppreffed thofe firangers, and di- 
vided the {poil ameng themfelves: and partly a predi&tion 
of the deliverance of Ifrael, and of = victory and triumph 
of the whole church over her enemie 
The time of this prophet is ehally) uncertain. St. Jero 
with the Hebrews, believes, that he was the fame with the 
governor of Ahab’s ho i i iil 
> 
Jofiah made overieer of the works of the temple, mentioned 
2 Chron. xxxiv. 12. But mott authors make him contem- 
porary with Hofea, Amos, and Joel. Liaftly, fome believe 
him to be contemporary with Jeremiah, after the taking of 
areas It is more probable, fays Du Pin, that he lived 
in the time of Ahaz, when the Edomites, in conjunction 
with the Tiraclites, made war againft the tribe of Judah, 
becaufe his prophecy is wholly againft the Edomites, or 
Idumzans. The greater part of his book is included in one 
of the prophecies of ae = Compare Ob. 1—g. with 
Jer. xlix. 14, 15, 1 
: Roza, ; in Gam, the Japanefe name of a 
charming fhrub, called by fyftematic botanifts Calyeanthus 
ort. Kew. ed. i, v. 2. 220. 
t. 10, as well as in Kempf. Am. Exot. t. 879 Ca- 
LYCANTHUS.) Juflieu juftly ae the propriety of its ree 
ference to that genus; but he is mifled by Kempfer’s plate 
to fuppofe the fiyle fimple, ious he aatly learned from 
thence that the ftamens are but five. The fruit however 
feems to be that of a true Calycanthus. i 
treated as a ftove plant, proves hardy in our gardens, 
flowering in January, before the leaves appear. 
flowers have a yellow calyx, and dark purple petals, and 
England, and we have found a great obftacle to its preferva- 
tion, 
