OBJ 
as thick as where you firft tried it in the notch. After this 
in ha 
. (Phil. Trant. vol. xlviii. p. 177, 
chief advantage of having a glafs well-centered is ae 
ca the rays coming through any given hole 
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or that about which . . ve sed ye 
In which fenfe the comcidee with. julea 
The {chool philfophers diftinguifh seh kind: of objects 
in the fame {c material, which is the thing itfelf 
; and an it is the human 
of ie 
OBJ Boon in oa oning, fomething urged to over- 
throw a pofition ; or a difficulty raifed alee an oo 
or 8 oe of a per a on wi = whom we are difputi 
anfwering of objections comes nade that Sank of 
cee, or that part of an Sine. called confirmation, or 
confutatton. 
Oxsection, Over-ruling an. See QVER-RULI 
OBJECTIVE, Ossecrivus, is ufed in ihe fehools i in 
{peaking of a thing which exifts no otherwife than as an 
obje& known. 
he effe, or exiftence of fuch a thing, is faid to be ob- 
Others call it ratio objediva. 
or the power, or faculty, by 
which any thing becomes intelligible. And for the dates itl, 
whereby any thing is prefented to the mind, an 
ence a thing is faid ¢o exif objectively, sbjediiv’,, hea it 
exifts no dia than in being known, or by being an 
objeé of the m 
This fome will have to be real sel 3 others deny it. 
Oxsective Evidence. See EVIDENCE 
OxssecTive Line. See Line. 
Pi oe 
ane. See PLANE 
OBJECTUM quod complexum, 0 ‘of an art, is the aggre- 
gate whole, or a colleCtion of all the objective conclufions, 
or confequences found in the fcience. 
OssectuM quod ly is a collection of all the 
fubjects of the objective canclufions. Thus, therefore, air, 
as elaftic, is the complew obje&t of one branch of phyfics ; and 
air itfelf, or the fubje&t of the conclufion, the incomplex 
obje& of the fame — 
~ OBsECTUM quo complexum, is a colleGion of all the ob- 
jective antecedents of the {cience. 
TUM quo incomplexum, is a colleétion of all the me- 
diums, or arguments, contained in thofe antecedents, and 
whereby thofe oadltions are proved. 
L. XXV. 
OBL 
In thefe cafes, the obje& is faid to be complex, inafmuch 
as it includes both an affirmation and negation ; he incom- 
plex, as it includes neither : gwod, as being that which (quod) 
is fhewn in the {cience ; and quo, as being that alee (quo) 
the conclufions therein are proved. 
Schoolmen alfo diftinguifh other objects, which it is need- 
lefs to mention 
BIIT Nurer. See Nuren. 
re Sai in Geography, a province of the interior parts of 
rica 
OBIONE, in Botany, Gertner, v. 2. 198. t 
genus formed by that author, of the Linnzan Atriplen y bie 
rica, becaufe its male flowers are four-cleft and tetrandrous, 
and, more efpecially, on account of the inverted pofition of 
the feed and its embryo. This plant is fo perfeé 
Atriplex in every other re{pe&t, that we prefume to thi 
laft-mentioned charaéter is not api le infallible any more 
than the others, at leaft when the 
OBIT, Ozirus, in a Ancient C 
folemnity, or office for dead ; 3 
when the corpfe lay u str in the c 
Osrr is alfo an anniverfary office or a held bar ba in 
the Romifh church, on a ee ain day, in memory of 
erfon deceafed. 
One of the moft ancient obits in Europe is that of king 
Childebert, pandas in the abbe ey < f St. Germains Defprez, 
and faid on —- eve of St. Thomas’s day. 
The tenure of obit, or Sant late. held of the fubjec 
by fuch fepviee. is decreed to be extin& with us, by ftat. 
1 Edw. 
REA, 
Geography, an ifland of the Pacific 
ocean, 100 oe e 
22° 40’. W. lon 
S. of the Society Iflands. S. 
150° 50!. This ifland has no good 
RY, shag ca a funeral ae in which 
are written the names of the s of = 
burial; for whom obits, or aoe: are be per 
in 
s 
cf 
Thefe, in fome places, are alfo called mortuaries ; but 
more frequently necrologies, or calendars 
Y¥ is more particularly ated for a book containin g 
the foundation or inftitution of the feveral obits in a churc 
or monaftery. 
This is more frequently called the apa 
Pi ateestaer se in Icht 
y fome to the 
See Sparus Melanurus. 
things given, or ene offered, parti« 
cularly to the king by any of his fubje&ts 
They are thus called, becaufe the oblata, or offerings to 
our kings, were fo ftri@ly looked to in the reigns s of king 
e tail. 
OB 
roll under the term oblata; and, if not paid, were put in 
charge to the fheri 
Oxvara, in the Exchequer, fignify old debts; brought, 
as it were, together, from preceding years, and put to the 
prefent fheriff’s charge. 
Oszxata is alfo a word ufed by fome authors to exprefs a 
fort of purging sete aa of fine flour and fugar, with 
ome purging ingredient 
OsiaTz is alfo tes to fignify the confecrated wafers, 
hofts, rapture to the commu nicants in the mafs 
facrame nt of t d fometimes the cuftomary treats 
in religious honiea a been called by the name of ob/ata. 
OBLATI, anciently, were fecular perfons, who be- 
Nn ftowe 
