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afcribed to celibacy, Solitude, voluntary poverty; with 
the rigours of an afcetic, and the vows of a monadic, 
life; the hair-fhirt, the.watchings, the midnight prayers, 
the obmutefccnce, the gloom and mortification, of religious 
orders, and of thofe who afpired to religious perfe&ion. 
Palsy's Ev. of the Chr. Eel. 
OBNOX'IOUS, adj. [ obnoxius , Lat.] Subject.—I pro¬ 
pound a charafter of juflice in a middle form, between 
the fpeculative difcourfes of philofophers, and the wri¬ 
tings of lawyers, which are tied and obnoxious to their 
particular laws. Bacon's Holy War. —Liable to punifh- 
ment.—We know ourfelves obnoxious to God’s Severe juf- 
tice, and that he is a God of mercy; and, that we might 
not have the lead fufpicion of his willingnefs to forgive, 
he hath fent his only-begotten Son into the world, by his 
difmal bufferings and curbed death to expiateouroffences. 
Calamy. 
All are obnoxious ; and this faulty land, 
Like fainting Hefter, does before you (land. 
Watching your fceptre. Waller. 
Reprehenfible, not of found reputation.—Conceiving it 
mod reasonable to Search for primitive truth in the pri¬ 
mitive writers, and not to fuffer his underftanding to 
be prepoffelt by the contrived and interefted Schemes of 
modern, and withal obnoxious, authors. Fell. —Liable; 
expofed.—Long hoftility had made their frienfhip weak 
in itfelf, and more obnoxious to jealoufies and diftrufts. 
Hayward. 
But what will not ambition and revenge 
Defcend to ? Who afpires, muff down as low 
As high he Soar’d ; obnoxious, firftorlaft. 
To baSeft things. Milton. 
OBNOX'IOUSNESS, f. Subjection; liableneSs to pu- 
nifliment.—Men, by incurring guilt and being expofed 
to vengeance, are Subject to relileSs Sears, and dinging 
remorfes of conscience; nor can they be exempted from 
Such obnoxioufncfs otherwise than by the free grace and 
mercy of God. Barrow on the Forgivencfs of Sins. 
OBNOX'IOUSLY, adv. In a ltate of Subjection ; in 
the State of one liable to punifhment. 
To OBNU'BILATE, v. a. [ obnubilo , Lat.] To cloud ; 
to obfcure.—As a black and thick cloud covers the Sun, 
and intercepts his beams and light; So doth this melan¬ 
choly vapour obnubilate the mind. Burton's Anat, of Mel. 
But corporal life doth So obnubilate 
Our inward eyes, that they be nothing bright. More. 
OBNUBILA'TION, f. The aft of making obfcure.— 
Let others glory in their triumphs and trophies, in their 
obnubilation of bodies corufcant; that they have brought 
fear upon champions. V/aterhous's Apol. for Learning. • 
To OBNUN'CIATE, v. a. [from the Lat. ob, againlt, and 
nuncio, to Snow.] To foretel Some unfortunate event. 
Cole. 
OBNUNCIA'TION, f. The a£l of diffolving an aflem- 
bly on prefumption of ill Succefs. Cole. 
O'BOCZ, a town of the duchy of Warfaw: fifteen 
miles north-north-w'eft of Kalifch. 
OBODOW'KA, a town and fortrefs of Poland, in the 
palatinate of Braclaw : twenty-eight miles South of Bra- 
claw. 
OBOIAN', a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Kirfk. Lat. 51.10. N. Ion. 35. 54. E. 
OBOLA'RIA,yi [from ololus, a Small coin ; the brae- 
teal leaves being round like a piece of money.] In botany, 
a genus of the clafs didynamia, order angiofpermia, natu¬ 
ral order of perfonatse, (pediculares, Juff.) Generic cha¬ 
racters— Calyx: none, except two tirades. Corolla: 
or.e-petalled, unequal: tube bell-lhaped, ventricofe, per¬ 
vious : border four-cleft, Spreading a little; Segments 
Snorter than the tube, bifid, a little unequally lacinated. 
Stamina : filaments four, awl-fhaped, from the flits of the 
corolla, the neared a little longer; antherae Small. Piftil- 
lum: germ ovate, eomprefied ; ltyle fubcylir.dric, the. 
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length of the damens; digma bifid, thickifh, permanent. 
Pericarpium; capfule fubovate, comprefled, ventricofe, 
one-celled, two-valved, with the partition contrary. Seeds 
numerous, Small, like meal.— Efential Character. Calyx 
two-leaved, (or none except two braCtes ;) corolla four- 
cleft, bell-fhaped ; damina from the flits of the corolla ; 
cap(ule one-celled, two valved, many-feeded. 
Obolaria Virginica, a Angle fpecies. Stem Simple. 
Leaves oppofite, the upper ones purple on the outfide. 
Flowers in terminating Spikes, cludered at the top, pale 
red. It has the habit of Orobanche, and is allied to 
that genus. Native of Virginia ; flowers in April. 
OBO'LARIA, f. in botany. Siegelbeck had chofen 
this lame appellation for another plant with rounded 
leaves, now become far more famous by another name, 
Linn/ea, which See. 
OB'OLUS, f. An ancient coin of Athens. See the ar¬ 
ticle Medal, vol. xiv. p. 806, 7. 
Obolus was alfo ufed, among our ancedors, for half 
a noble or florin ; where the noble was effeemed as the 
penny, and its quarter part a farthing. In effeCt, in the 
old hidories and accounts of coins, we are to underhand 
by the word denarius, the whole coin, be it angel, rial, &c. 
by the obolus , its half; and by quadrans, its fourth part. 
Obolus, in medicine, is ufed for a weightof ten grains, 
or half a Scruple. Du Cange (ays the obolus weighs three 
carats, or four grains of wheat; others divide it into fix 
areolae, and the areola into Seven minutes; others into 
three filiqute, each filiqua intofourgrains, and each grain 
into a lentil and a half. Among the Sicilians, obolus al¬ 
fo denoted a weight of a pound. Chambers. 
OBOL'LAH, a town of Perfia, near Baflfora, in the 
province of Irak, on the Tigris. It is not large, but 
flrongand well peopled; and the Situation is effeemed one 
of the mod charming in Perfia. 
OBO'NA, a town of Spain, in Afluria : twenty-four 
miles wed of Oviedo. 
OBOR'KOW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Belcz : twelve miles north-north-wed of Belcz. 
OBORNI'KI, a town of the duchy of Warfaw: twenty 
miles from Pofen. 
OBOR'NOI, a cape on the coafl of Ruflia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Archangel, in the Frozen Sea : zoo miles 
fouth-eafl of Kola. Lat. 67. 50. N. Ion. 40. 34. E. 
O'BOTH, an encampment of the Hebrews in the wil- 
dernefs. From Punon they went to Oboth, and from 
Oboth to Ije-abarim; (Numb. xxi. 10. pcxxiii.43.) Pto¬ 
lemy fpeaks of a city called Oboda, or Eboda, in Arabia 
Petrsea, which is the Same as Oboth. Pliny and the geo¬ 
grapher Stephanus mention it alfo. Stephanus makes it 
belong to the Nabathaeans, and Pliny to the Helmodeans, 
a people of Arabia. It was at Oboth that they worfliip- 
ped the god Obodus, which Tertullian joins with Dufares, 
another god or king of this country. 
OBO'VATE, adj. Obverfely ovate; Spoken of the 
leaves of plants, when the bafe is narrow and the apex 
round, like an ovate leaf in verted, or like an egg Standing 
on the Smaller end. See the article Botany, vol. iii. 
p. 244. 
OBOXIN'TA, atown of Japan, in the ifland ofNiphon: 
twenty-two miles South of Meaco. 
O'BRA, a town of the duchy of Warfaw : twenty-fix 
miles South of Pofen. 
OBRA'WA, or Bobrawa, a town of Moravia, in the 
circle of Brunn : twenty-fix miles north-wed of Brunn. 
O'BRECHT (Ulric), a learned philologifl and civilian, 
was born in 1647, at Strafburg, where his grandfather had 
been profefi'or of law. His literary acquisitions at a very 
early age excited general admiration ; when he was only 
nineteen, he printed a “Commentary upon the Somnium 
Scipionis,” and a “ Diflertation on the Principles of civil 
and political Wifdom.” He afterwards publiflied “ Ani- 
madverfiones in Diflertationes de Ratione Status in Im- 
perio,” which was an anfwer to a celebrated work of that 
timeagaind the claims of the houfe of Auflria. The fer- 
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