OLE 
gis in bee saan gear to the “ Leipfic Ads.” 
e was created doétor o 
to the dignity of rector. 
O’LEARY, Aaruu mi 
of the laft century, was born in the city o aa 
an 
was fent to France at an early age, 
ftudies at the college of St. Malo’s in B cay. afte 
which he entered into Francifcan order of Capuchins. 
the 
When he had finifhed his ftu = he was appointed a 
to a regiment of his countrymen in the fervice of the Fre 
king, an office which he foon an up, and returned to ‘his 
native country. By r the aff ftance of fome friends he built 
mee 
reland fhewed a difpofition to relax the rigour 
of the penal ae againft the Roman Catholics, and frame 
eft oath, to be adminiftered to fuch of them as 
inft him 
nd ‘albus ot pret, who olletfed neither the 
ie nor the talent to a& in ame manner. e enjoyed 
this critical Teeriod, when the combined fleets of France and 
Spain infulted the Britifh coaft, and threatened an invafion 
of Ireland, he addreffed his Catholic countrymen in the moft 
sel ee language, in the caufe of order and loyalty, and 
with effect as to merit the thanks of the government. 
He was eoually fuccefsful, not only in quelling thofe infur- 
gents who had attacked the tythe-proctors of the Proteftant 
clergy, but in bringing them toa fenfe of their mifcondua. 
This occafioned an attack upon himfelf from Dr. Woodward, 
the Proteftant bifhop of 
Defence of the Condu& 
O'Leary, &c. writte n 
nen 
eration on poe Pius VI., 
nobility, and aa of high ran i a fied at a 
wanced age in the month of January 1802, od was attended 
eforea 
OLE 
his ardent piety as for ‘h 3 im man prea ales 
As a writer, his ityle is fica ‘bold, a cae hae 
deficient in grace, perfpicuity, and. fometimes grammar. 
His higheft praife, however, arifes from his having been a 
diftinguifhed friend to freedom, on which account he was 
frequently complimented by Meflrs. Grattan, Flood, and 
other diftinguifhed members of the Irifh parliament, in their 
public fpeeches. He was author of many works befides 
thofe already referred to. es “© Mifcellaneous Traéis” 
form one volume 8vo. For farther particulars, the reader 
who flourifhed in the pees century, was p 
native of Azambuja, a town on the banks of the Tagu 
In the year 1520, a oat the habit of the Dominican Arie 
in a monafter oon ey the charafter 
and a re & 
on his behalf at the council of 
was ae bifhop of St. oo in Africa, but he 
clined accepting that dign He was afterwards 
pointed to the office of « tranigeor ’ and filled the various 
offices of truit and honour in that province of - order. 
He died in — year 1563. He was author of “ Com. 
mentaries’”” on many parts of the meena but i work 
by which be is chiefly known is entitled ‘ Hiero sat ab 
Oleaftro Commentarii in Bentatevchsm,” which was pub- 
n five parts, forming together a 
ig e y rare, and much ae 
y co olleétors, owing to the circumitance of its no 
having ig {ubjected to the examination of the inquifitorial 
office. It has paffed through feveral other editions. His 
nee on Bie was firft publifhed at Paris in 1623. 
Moreri and Gen. B 
OLEASTER, in ae Wate ia Medica, the name of the fallow 
thorn, or fea buckthorn, fn rhamnoides falicis folio of bo-« 
tanical authors. 
OLEASTRUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Spains 
on the route from Tarragona to Tortofa ; ee on the 
fea-coaft, in the country of the Coretani, S. arraco. 
OLECRANON, in Anatomy, a procefs oe the ulna, 
which forms the prominence of the elbow. See ExTREMi- 
IBS. 
Oxecranon, Fradures of. See FRACTURES. 
OLE NT Gas. _ is an inflammable gas, com- 
pofed of carbon and hydro if eae Ae a PUalliane 
flame. ‘This gas is formed Aurin the bur: wax and 
{permaceti oil, which accounts for the brilliant light afforded 
by thofe combuttible bodies. When we recollect the great 
denfity of this gas, we are not furprifed at its brilliant flame. 
O cendonea only one-fixth of it is hydrogen, yet that is as 
condenfed as to give a light, the denfity of which is to that 
of hydrogen as 12 
Mr. Dalton has determined the weight of the atom of 
this gas to be 6.4, being an atom of carbon 5.4 with an 
atom of hydrogen 1. See Olefiant Gas under Gaia 
and Gas. 
OLEGOJU, in ihe och a cape of Ruffia, in the fea 
of Ochothk ; yh miles E. of Ochotfk. N. lat. 59° 20’. 
E. long. 151° 
EINE, 1 n Bo otany, a natural order of plants, fepa- 
rated by Mr. R. cae after Hoffmanfegg and Link, ae 
