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OBARE'NI, a people who inhabit a confiderable part 
of Armenia, near the river Cyrus. 
OBASI'NE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Correze : fix miles north-eaft of Brive. 
OB'BA, anciently a town of Africa, in Mauritania 
Csefarienfis. 
OB'BEDIN, a town of Walachia: four miles north- 
weft of K raj ova. 
OB'BES, or Loebes, an abbey and village of Hainaut : 
two miles north-weft of Thuin. 
OBDORMI'TION, f [from obdormio, Lat.] Sleep; 
reft ; repofe.—A peaceable ubdonnition in thy bed of eafe 
and honour. Bp. Hall. 
OBDOR'SKOI, a town of Ruftia, in the government 
of Tobollk, on the Oby, near its mouth. Here the Sa- 
moiedes bring their tribute : 508 miles north of Tobollk, 
680 eaft of Archangel, and 1040 eaft-north-eaft of Peterf- 
burg. Lat. 66. io. N. Ion. 67. 14. E. 
To OBDU'CE, v. a. [obduco, Lat.] To draw over as a 
covering,—No animal exhibits its face in the native co¬ 
lour of its (kin but man ; all others are covered with 
feathers, hair, or a cortex that i,s obduced over the cutis. 
Hale. 
OBDUC'TION, f. The aft of covering, or laying a 
cover. 
OBDU'RACY, f. [from obdurate.'] Inflexible wicked- 
nefs; impenitence; hardnefs of heart.—God may, by a 
inighty grace, hinder the abfolute completion of fin in 
final obduracy. South. 
OBDURATE, adj. \obduratus, Lat.] Hard of heart ; 
inflexibly obftinate in ill; hardened; impenitent.—Be 
not obdurate, open thy deaf ears. Shakefpecire. 
Obdurate as you are, oh ! hear at leaft 
My dying prayers, and grant my laft requeft. Dry dm. 
Hardened ; firm; ftubborn ; always with fome degree of 
evil.—Sometimes the very cuftom of evil makes the heart 
obdurate again ft whatfoever inftruftions to the contrary. 
Hooker. 
A pleafing forcery could charm 
Pain for a while, or anguifh, and excite 
Fallacious hope, or arm the obdurate bread 
With ftubborn patience, as with triple fteel. Milton's P. L. 
Harflr; rugged.—They joined the raoft obdurate confo- 
nants without one intervening vowel. Swift. 
OBDU'RATELY, adv. Stubbornly; inflexibly ; irnpe- 
nitently. 
OBDU'RATENESS, f. Stubbornnefs; inflexibility; im¬ 
penitence.—This reafon of his was grounded upon the 
obduratencfs of men’s hearts, which would think that no¬ 
thing concerned them. Hammond. 
OBDURA'TION, f. Flardnefs of heart; ftubbornnefs. 
—This barren feafon is always the reward of obftinate 
cbduration. Hammond. 
To OBDU'RE, v. a. \obduro, Lat.] To harden.—The 
buildings are for the mod part of brick, not burnt with 
fire, but hardened by the fun, which makes them fo hard, 
that they appear no lefs folid and ufeful than thofe the 
fire obdures. Sir T. Herbert's Travels. —To render inflexi¬ 
ble ; to make obdurate.—All hearts are not alike: no 
means can work upon the wilfully obdured. Bp. Hall. — 
His infinite power, juftice, wifdom, mercy, knows when 
and how to fcourge one, to chaftife a fecond, to warn a 
third, to humble a fourth, to obdure a fifth. Bp. Hull's 
Remains. —The juftice of your caufe has won over your 
obdured rebel fubjefts. Montrofe's Lett, to IC. Charles. 
Arm the obdured bread 
With ftubborn patience. Milton. 
OBDU'RED, adj. Hardened; inflexible; impenitent. 
Milton. 
OBDU'REDNESS, J. Hardnefs; ftubbornnefs.— Even 
the belt of us lies open to a certain deadnefs and obdured - 
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nefs of heart. Seafonable exhortation (hakes off this peril. 
Bp. Hall. 
O'BED, [Heb. a fervant.] A man’s name. 
O'BED E'DOM, in feripture-hiftory, fon of Jeduthun, 
a Levite, (1 Chr. xvi. 38.) and father of Shemaiah, Jeho- 
zabad, Joah, Sacar, Nathaneel, Ammiel, Iflachar, and 
Peuithai. He had a numerous family, fays the feripture, 
(1 Ghron.xxvi. 4.) becaufe the Lord blefled him; and 
this is the occafion of the blefling: When David tranf- 
ferred the ark of the.covenant to the city of Jerufalem, 
Uzzah, having raflily laid hands on the ark, which he 
thought to be in danger of falling, was fmitten of'God, 
and died upon the fpot. David, terrified at this accident, 
durft not remove the ark into the place he had provided 
for it in his own houfe, but fet it up in the houfe of Obed 
Edom, which was near the place where Uzzah had been 
(truck dead. But the prefence of the ark not only created 
no temporal misfortune to the family of this Levite, but, 
on the contrary, the Lord heaped upon him all forts of 
bieffings ; which encouraged David fome months after to 
remove it to the place he had appointed for it. After¬ 
wards Obed Edom and his ions were afligned to be keepers 
of the doors of the temple, (1 Chron.xv. 18, 21.) in the 
fecond book of Samuel, (vi. 10.) Obed Edom is called 
the Gittite, probably becaufe he was of Gath-rimmon, 
a city of the Levites beyond Jordan, (Jo(h. xxi. 24, 25.) 
O'BED’s RIV'ER, a river of TennefTee, which runs 
into the Cumberland about 290 miles from its mouth. 
The Cumberland is thus far navigable for lar^e veflels. 
OB'EDACH, or Obdach, a town of Stiria: nine miles 
fouth-vveft of Judenburg. 
OBE'DIENCE, J. [Fr. from obedientia, Lat.] Gbfequi- 
oufnefs ; fubmiflion to authority; compliance with com¬ 
mand or prohibition.—His fervants ye are, to whom ye 
obey; whether of fin unto death, or of obedience unto 
righteoufnefs. Rom. vi. 16.—We rnuft beg the grace and 
afliftance of God’s fpirit to enable us to forfake our fins, 
and to walk in obedience to him. Whole Duty of Man .— 
The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels ; 
and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as ra¬ 
tional beings in heaven live unto him. Law. 
He craves no other tribute at thy hands, 
But love, fair looks, and true obedience. Shakefpeare. 
OBE'DIENT, adj. [obediens, Lat.] Submiffive to au¬ 
thority ; compliant with command or prohibition ; obiye- 
quious.—Religion hath a good influence upon the people, 
to make them obedient to government, and peaceable one 
towards another. Til/otjon. 
The chief his orders gives; the obedient band, 
With due obfervance, wait the chief’s command. Pope 
OBEDIEN'TIAL, adj. According to the rule of obe¬ 
dience.—Faith is then perfeft, when it produces in us a 
fiduciary aflent to whatever the gofpel has revealed, and 
an obediential fubmiflion to the commands. Wake's Prep, 
for Death. 
OBE'DIENTLY, adv. With obedience.—We fliould 
behave ourfelves reverently and obediently towards the 
Divine Majefty, and jultly and charitably towards men. 
Tillotfon. 
OBE'DIENTNESS, J". The ftate or quality of being 
obedient. Scott. 
OB'EDOS. See Oeidos. 
OBEI'DIA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Diarbekir, on the Khabur : eighty miles eaft of Racca, 
and forty-five fouth-eaft of Rafain. 
OBE'ISANCE, f. [Fr. This word is formed by cor¬ 
ruption from abaijunce , an aft of reverence.] A bow; a 
courtefy; an a6ft of reverence made by inclination of the 
body or knee.—Bathflieba bowed, and did obeijance unto 
the king. 1 Kings i. 16. 
The lords and ladies paid 
Their homage, with a low obeijance made. Dryden, 
Formerly, 
