OFF 
the proto-martyr of England, St. Alban, ia ean 
and founded a magnificent monaftery on the fpot. At 
length he made a pilgrimage to Rome, where he lavifhed 
great {ums to procure the papal abfolution and benediction, 
pope for pious and 
is 
felf at a lofs to pane wheter the merits or the crimes 
of this prince preponderated. Hume and Henry. 
ee rs a name whic Mi 
the white coagulum, ariling fro i 
_ of wine with {pirit of cane or “fpitit of fal am- 
» The fpirit of urine muft be diftilled from well fer- 
men wine, oc Sau ther mult be well dephlegmated ; 
elfe no offa will a 
Some call it fe. ofa alba of Paracelfus, others of Van 
Helmont; whence it is fometimes called ofa Helmeniiana ; 
but Van Helmont was not the inventor of it, but Raim 
Lully, Boerhaa 
The manner of aie ing the ve alba is defcribed by this 
laft alr, who gbferves it to ifficult, as it requires 
both liquors to be perfeé&t, and Ce nice circumftances to 
be o 
n Helmont endeavours to account for the ahaa 
of the ftone in the bladder, from this experiment 5 as 
Boerhaave - ves, the offa alba has nothing in common 
with the fton 
Boerhaave | commend: this mixture as a good deobitruent, 
taken in Canary, fafting. 
Orra’s Dyke, in Geography. ‘See Offa’s DyKE 
OFFA RBOUR, a ~~ on ae N. coaft of the 
E. long. 131° 
ifland of Aad ig o, onthe Lin 
FFELI - miles . W. of 
NG, a town of “‘Auliea: 
Frey tftadt. 
OFFEN. See Bup 
OFFEN See, a lake of Auftria; 16 miles E. of St. 
Wolfgang. 
OFFENBACH, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Ifenburg, on t aine, baer two Piotellan 
churches, a Gea sogne and , and feveral manufac- 
tures; three miles E. of Eee on the Maine 
OFFE NBURG, a town of Germany, fituated on the 
Kinzeg, in the Ortenau, Fae imperial. In the year 
1802, it was given to the duke of Baden. The inhabitants 
are Roman Catholics ; 24 aie S.S.W. of Raftart. N 
lat. 48° 27', E. long. 7° 58". 
OFFE ENCE, Deticrum, in Law, an a& committed 
again{t the law, or omitted, where the law requires it. 
ds, viz. fuch as 
P.C. 2. 
ome = are punifhable by the common law, but 
mott of them by ftatutes. 
Judge Blackllon diftributes the feveral offences, which 
are direly ccnfequence injuricus to civil fociety, and 
therefore aaithabe by the laws of England, under thefollow 
log general heads ; firft, thofe which are more immediately in- 
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jurious to God and his holy eas fecondly, fuch as violate 
and tranfgrefs the law of nations ; thirdly, fuch as more efpe- 
cially affect the fovereign executive power of the fate, ¢ or al 
king and his government ; fourthly, 
fringe the rights c of the public c or t commonwealth ; and, “tally, 
,Ww ich are owing 
to particalar pr olgaet and in “the prefervation and vindica- 
tion of w e community 1s deeply in ed. the 
{s ie apoftaly, bherefy, ae which affe&t the 
eltablifhed church, by reviling its ordin or noncon- 
and. common 
Tich ac 
conduéls or paffports, tk 
before and the crime ok The offences belonging 
o the third general Rieter a are = ae. felonies injurious to 
contempis. ‘The fourth of offences m 
re {pecies, viz. offences agawnit public juffice, againit 
the pu peace, againft public trade, againit public 
health, avd againft the public police or economy e | 
perfons, their pce and their property. van ac- 
ae of each o ences above enumerated, and thofe 
ong to each al we refer to the appropriate 
at 
des in the Cyclopedia 
OFFENHAUSEN, in n Geography, a town of Germany, 
in the territory of Nuremberg ; ; five miles N.N.W. of Al- 
torff. 
eae See Ostation, and HEAVE-offring. 
Orr RING, Burnt e Hoxocaust. 
OFF TERT OR . Ox FERTORIUM, an anthem fung, or 
a voluntary played on the organ, at the ce the people are 
making an offering. 
Anciently, the a confifted of a pfalm fung with 
its anthem; thougl s fomewhat dubious whether the 
pfalm was fung ae St. George mentioning, that when 
It was time, the pope, looking - the choir who {ung it, 
gave the fign when i fhould e 
OFFERTORY was jes a natne ee given to the linen 
whereon the offerings were laid. . Harris fays, it was 
properly a piece of filk, or fine linen, wherein the occa- 
fional oblations or offerings of each church were wrapped 
up. 
OFFICE, Orricium, in a moral fenfe, <= a duty ; 
r that which virtue and right reafon dire&t a m do. 
according to Chauvin, is the purpo ote ” Of doing 
the thing which immediately follows, or arifes from 
this purpofe, is chedience ; which fame is alfo denominated 
officium : fo that an office is the object of an obedience to 
virtue 3 which fee 
icero, in his difeouete is & offices,” 
dant itten before am 
define ie or fubje Bae on w : 
himfelf fall under the fame cenfure. He :nfilts much on the 
divifion of offices, but forgets the definition. In other of 
his pieces we find him defining cffice to be an aCtion, which 
a requires to be oe “ Quod autem ratione aétum fit, 
d officium appellam 
eks, 
cenfures Panetius, 
e, for omitting to 
The Gre he obferves, mide two f{pecies of office: 
: called by them xazopbuje 3 and commen, or indifferent, 
called xa9axor: whic ey define fo, as tl w 
= “ablolutely right, makes a perfcd office; and what we can 
only 
