ORE 
t. ° thax nage Embothrium grandiflorum ; gone ck 
cae . 354. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. 538. mares 
atum 3 
Native of the colder mountains of Peru. 
Jorub, twelve feet high. Stem te) branche 2 the br 
3 
Rule and Pavon Fl. Peruv. v. 1. t. ce 
A eel coh 
anches 
many 
ea involucrum. This fplendid hen flowers in Sep- 
tember and OGober, when it is ufed to ornament the tem- 
ples and idols of the Peruvians. Its habit is altogether like 
that of the Embothrium coccineum of Forfter an Nas 
and of the £. Sten” if imum of la New Holl. Bot. t. 7. 
Sims in Curt. M t. 1128. prefume to ae there 
a name given by the ancients to a kind of 
horfe tail which they found growing on mountains in 
wet and damp places. It is to this fpecies that many 
authors have attributed the principal virtues of the genus; 
and this feems to have been the fame with our great water 
horfe-tail. Neophytus fays, that it rofe up with a fingle 
ftalk refembling a young reed, = fea this was compofed 
of ee me in the manner of cups, were inferted 
one into anoth and that from thefe joints the leaves grew, 
and that they eee thofe of the pine-tree. 
e long an 
a gre — norfe-tail Ives 
{prings in hilly countries, and 1s always moft 
plentiful in : fach places. 
OREOSELINUM. See ArHama 
ORES, in Geography, a aaa of the | ifland of Sardinia ; 
16 miles § S.E. of Ore 
ORESA, a town of Ta haaiis, in the palatinate of Nov- 
gorod; 18 alee E.N.E. of Sluck. 
ORESME, Seema in Biography, an eminent French 
Ss ~ one of the moft celebrated writers in the 14th 
century, w nat Caenin Normandy. He purfued his 
ftudies at fe rene Ns of bea Raa = ee himfel 
a member of the college of Navarre, and was in due time ad- 
mitted to the degrec of doctor by he are of the Sorbonne. 
e was elected grand matter . the college in 
Launoy fays that he 
greatly aaa te to the revival of aes in that femi- 
nary. ofe fucceflively to various high ftations in the 
church ; ere n 1360, king John appointed | him preceptor to 
his fon Charles, who became the fifth kirg of France of that 
name. In 1363, he was fent to tranfaé affairs of importance 
with pope Urban V., and the college of cardinals at Avig- 
non, and on this occafion he fignalized himfelf by a difcourfe 
which he delivered before the pope and cardinals, in which 
he oe bitterly againft the fcandalous Sei eat of 
the papal court. ‘This difcourfe was publifhed by Gefner 
at Wittemberg in 1604. Orefme next ae at at- 
tention by another * Difcourfe concerning the Changes in 
the Value of Money,” in which he cenfured the condudt of 
thofe princes who coined money below the juft ftandard, and 
maintained that they had no power to increafe or depreciate 
the value of money at their arbitrary pleafure. This dif- 
ORF 
courfe is inferted in the twenty-fixth volume sf the Bibl- 
Patr. Upon the acceffion of Charles V. to the throne 
- loaded his former tutor with favours, and confulted 
oft impor al In 
His acquaintance with divinity, philofophy, the mathe- 
matics, and the belles lettres, was very extenfive, and pro- 
fo e age in which De Launoy, Dupin, 
i to give any decifion on this fubje&. Orefme 
tranflated into French Ariftotl *¢ Morals and Politics,’’ 
by order of Charl : he was likewife the tranflator o 
fome parts of Cicero’s works; and the treatife bes Petrarch, 
“ De rainy Utriufque Fortune.’’ He was author of 
many original pieces, among a were three treatifes 
againit judicial aftrology. ore 
OREXIS, Aprerite. The a appetite, when exceflive, 
otherwife vitiated, is diftinguifhed by medical writers into 
feveral kinds, and de {cribed under feveral names, according 
to its difference in degree, and other particular 
he firft kind is the eiweies nt is the ane given 
to that {pecies in whic ood i only n in too 
sa a el but is (allowed ina opera ravenous 
The feeond ia°the Orexis Canina: in this cafe a ee 
is continually cageny longing for food; and i ot 
ready fo foon as he de ubjeét to insn edn 
after the recovery from w Les 1e does not feel the fame 
craving appetite. See Bur 
The third is ihe Pica, or "Sitta: this is the cafe when the 
patient has an eager appetite to things not . for food 3 
Fach as chalk, oul tobacco-pipes, and the like. 
he fourth is ia: this is diftindtively made 
the name of that pene of exceflive appetite in which the 
patient has a great defire for fome particular se but 
thofe of the nature of common food, and eee ly of the 
nicer and more celicate kind. See Apperi 
neve iesister in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 
Marawir; 25 mi . of aoe oe 
OREZA, a conn of the ifland of Corf fica, in the depart- 
ment of Corte. The canton contains 4345 inhabitants. 
eae ANEL, Hyacrinrn, in Biography, a Spanifh Domi- 
nican monk, who became a martyr to his zeal for propagating 
the ‘Catholic faithin Japan, wasborn inthe kingdom of Valencia 
in the La 1578. e entered, when very young, into the 
order St. Dominic; and in the year 1605, was fent out 
a a ee to the Philippine iflands. ence he 
went to Japan, where he chiefly applied himfelf to the in- 
ftruction of the poor, among whom he made many converts 
to the Catholic religion. While thus engaged, in what he 
confidered a good caufe, he endured great Sey and 
tufferings, and was at length arrefted, brought to a mock 
trial, and condemned to be burnt alive. This was in the 
year 1622. He contributed very much to the colleétion 
of miffionary travels among the Pagans of the Eaft, a work 
that was written in the Spanifh language, which relates to 
a country little known to Europeans, and is faid to abound 
ious and interefting matter. eful was the 
author to render his work perfeGly accurate, that while he 
was 
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