OBR 
The word comes from the Greek, foro, of oCeros, fpits 
or broach, either becaufe it bore fuch an impreffion, or be- 
caufe, according to Euftathins, it was in the form ae it: but 
thofe now in the cabinets of the antiquaries are ro 
They alfo ftruck ee pieces of one, two, anes fas and 
five a of half, and of one-fourth of an obolus. (See 
Dra ee sara ad copper 
equal in fize 
man feftertius, or 5 bral, en by degrees 
ce about the fize of a filver dra e of the latter 
iti 
ved in the time of Augu 
the eae ce eafed, the chalci came in 
their roeihy with ie dichalcus, and hemiobolion of brafs. 
See 
OsoLus was aii ufed, among qur Anceffors, for half a 
noble or florin ; where the noble was efteemed as the penny, 
and its quarter part a farthin 
In effet, in the old hifteries and accounts of coins, we 
are to raedeedand by the word denarius, the whole coin, be 
it angel, rial, &c.; by the obolus, its half ; and by qed 
its fourth part. 
Oxo.us, in Medicine, is ufed for a weight of ten grains, 
or half a {cruple. 
Du Cange fays, .the obolus weighs three carats, or four 
grains of wheat; others divide it into fix areolx, and the 
areola into feven minutes; others into three filique, each 
filiqua into four grains, and each grain into a lentil and a 
f. 
alf, 
Among the Sicilians obolus alfe denoted a weight of a 
pound. 
OBONA, in Geography, a town of Spain, in Afturia; 
24 miles W. of Ovie 
OBORKOW, a ss of sinc in the palatinate of 
Belcz: 12 miles N.N.W. of Bel 
OBORNIKI, a town of a cidy of Warfaw; 20 
miles from Pofen. 
OBORNOI, a cape on the coaft of Ruffia, in ee go- 
vernment of Archangel, in the Frozen fea 5 200 miles S.E 
. lat. 67° gol. ong. 50° 
OBOV M Fottium, in Botan See Lea 
OBOXINTA, in Geography, a town of jaa. in the 
ifland of Niphon; 22 miles S. of Meaco. 
OBRA, a town of the duchy of Warfaw; 26 miles S. 
of Pofen. 
OBRANG, in Botany, the name given by the peo ple of 
Guinea to a very fingular and remarkable plant, the virtues 
of whih they greatly praife. They boil it in water, and 
ufe the deco&tion by way of fomentation, to take down 
{wellings of the tefticles. its leaves have fome faint refem- 
blance to thofe of our liquorice, whence Petiver has called 
it giycyrrhize folio fingulari frutex Guineenfis {pinis ge- 
melis, 
OBRAWA, or Boprowa, in Ge engraphyy a town of 
Moravia; in the circle of Brunn; 26 miles N.W. of Brunn. 
OBRECHT ay eens in Biography, a learned philologift 
d civilian, was born in’ 1647 at Strafburg, where his 
grandfather had been erotelibe of the law. His tafte fgr 
literature and general sie was a ad at a very 
OBR 
early period, a at, the ide 3 of nineteen he punted a i 
entary upon . um Scipionis,” and “ 
tation on the Prin iples oF ifdom.” He afterwar a 
P 
ieee imadverfiones in Differtationes de Ratione tatus 
in Imper: whi an{wer to a celebrated ‘work of 
that A aazicl the ae of the houfe of Auftria, "He 
was made aie aiid of law at Strafburg, ae el his genie 
and economy o tim ou means to 
beng a Sket 
Excerpta Hiftorica de Natura ia 
ifpaniz,”’ for the rpc ing ae hereditary “ttle 
of Philip V. to the crown of Spain. a ~ n the year 
1705, in the 58th year of ie age. Morer 
Oxrecut. See Hoprecnr. 
OBRECKHEIM, in cee a town of Germany 
in the spe of the Rhine; 3 19 miles E. of ‘Heidelberg. 
.EPTITIOUS, OsREPTITIUS, a coy of letters 
eee or any other inftrument which confers a favou ry 
title, or conceffion ; denoting it rages of : a = by 
urprize, or by concealing from m the truth whic nic] 
neceflary to have been exprefie ed, in order” to kate it 
= : 
which fenfe the word ftands o oppo pofed to Surreptitions, 
ee fome falfehood has been exprefied, in order’ to Oct 
it the more eafily. Obreption annuls the grant, w ‘wherever 
nd. 
oo 
g 
By the canon law, a perfon demanding a benefice, without 
expreffing thofe he is already pofleffed of, forfeits, &c. by 
obreption. 
OBRIEN’s Brince, in Geography, a {mall town of the 
ounty of ae una where there is 3 Be over the 
ae Shann Near s Montpellier, where there is an 
excellent falpharous ‘one This once 18 eight miles N. E. 
of Limerick. 
OBRINE, and of ¢ ones a sk Ne order nd Cueva in 
azovia an V1 
se 
Jefus Chrife 
tet end’ was to 
BRI TZ, in ae a town of en op te Taya; $ 
6 miles W. of Sonneberg. 
OBRIZUM, in Antiquity, a — of gold. Pliny fays, 
that 7. a the gold that dain feveral times puri- 
ed in bres sc A ie xperimento ignis ¢ eft 1 ut 
fimili ese rubeat quo igniss ; atque ipfum ofrizugs aa 
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