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purpofe of carrying on the great work of reformation in 
this country. Here they met with a very cordial recep¬ 
tion at Lambeth, and laboured with great diligence and 
fuccefs in promoting the objefr of their million. In the 
year 1549, John Poynet, afterwards bilhop of Winchefter, 
publilhed in Englilh Ochinus’s “Dialogue of the unjuft 
nfurped Primacy of the Bilhop of Rome,” which he had 
tranflated from the Latin. According to Wood, Ochinus 
was made a prebendary of Canterbury; and Neal fays 
■ that-he and Fagius were fofar patronifed, as to have pen- 
lions or canonries, with a difpenfation ofreiidence; but, 
upon the death of king Edward VI. Peter Martyr and 
Ochinus were obliged to quit; England. They returned 
to the continent, and arrived at Strafburg in the year 1553. 
In 1555 Ochinus went to Ball), and accepted an invitation 
to become minifterof an Italian church which was formed 
about that time at Zurich. Here he continued to offi¬ 
ciate till 1563, when, efpouling l'ome dofrrines not agree¬ 
able to the theological lyltem of the Helvetic dofrors, he 
was obliged to reiign his charge, and he retired to B.afil ; 
from which place he was alfo driven, at the<age of leventy- 
fix, and compelled to feek a fanfruary in an inclement 
feafon of the year. He fought refuge, but without fuc¬ 
cefs, in Poland, an edifr having been palled by king Sigif- 
mund, which banilhed from his realms all heretics who 
were foreigners. Some of his friends would gladly have 
detained him in Poland; but he had learnt fo much of 
the dodirine of paffiv.e obedience as to declare, that it was 
the duty of fubjefrs to obey their fovereigns, and that he 
would let an example of obedience, and prefer death 
among the wild beads of the woods rather than counterafr 
his orders. He accordingly fet ofit for Moravia ; but was 
feized with the plague at Pinczow, which carried off two 
fons ami his daughter. Ochinus himfelf recovered fo far 
as to be able to re-new his journey, but he died in three 
weeks at Slawkaw, in 1564, about the age of feventy-feven. 
In the annals of the Capuchins a groundlfefs tale is in- 
ferted, that, before his death, he repented of having gone 
over to the Proteftants, abjured his herefies, confefl'ed his 
fins after the Roman-catholic manner, and died a true 
penitent. With refpefr to the opinions which he-held 
after he quitted Swilierland, different accounts are given 
by different writers ; fome faying that he turned anabap- 
tili, and denied the perfonality of the Holy Ghoft; others 
relating, in general, that he oppofed the dofrrine of the 
Trinity ; and he is certainly placed by the anti-trinitarians 
among the number of their friends. He was the author 
ofa-vaft number of works, chiefly, if not entirely , written 
in Italian; many of which have been,tranflated into the 
Latin, French,’ German, and other languages. They con- 
lift of, 1. A Commentary on the Epiltle of St. Paul to the 
Galatians, 2. Sermons, in 6 vols. Svo. 3. Dilcourfes 
concerning Predeltination and Free Will. 4. Homilies, 
Apologues, Dialogues, Sacred Declamations, a Cate- 
chifm, and a multitude of controverfial treatifes, a par¬ 
ticular enumeration of which is given in Sandii Biol. 
Anti-Trin. Neal's Hijl. Purit. vol. i. 
OCHLOC'RACY, f. [from the Gr. 0^05, multitude, 
and x^ccto;, power, or command.] A form of government 
w-herein the populace has the whole power and adminif- 
tration in its own hand. Democracy.—Do the noble and 
opulent fee in the example of Philip Egalite duke of Or¬ 
leans, nothing which fhould deter them from appealing 
to ochlocracy forredrefs? Bp. of Gloucejler's Protejlant 
Letter, 1813. 
OCH'NA,/ [derivation uncertain.] In botany, a genus 
of the clafs polyandria, order monogynia, natural order 
of coadunatae, (magnolias, Jnjf .) Generic charafrers— 
Calyx: perianthium one-leafed, inferior, coriaceous, per¬ 
manent, five-parted; parts ovate, blunt, fpreading; (ra¬ 
ther five-parted.) Corolla: petals five to twelve, cadu¬ 
cous. Stamina : filaments many, fhort; anthera; roundifh. 
Piftillum : germen ovate,.angular, five-cleft; ftyle angu¬ 
lar, erefr, permanent; fligma fimple. Pericarpium : none. 
Seeds: nuts five, .ovate, ere.fr, comprefied a little on the 
outfide, fomewhat convex, Hightly excavated within, 
blunt; with a thin (hell. Receptacle.very large; flelhy,. 
depreffed, five-cornered; corners protuberant, rounded, 
keeled at top, to each of which is fattened a nut, with a 
triangular-rounded fear ; ribs five, between the corners, 
of the receptacle, running down from the vertex to the 
bafe, and railed.— Efjential Character. Calyx five-leaved: 
corolla five-petalled; berries one-feeded, fattened to a 
large roundifh receptacle. There are three fpecies. 
1. Cchna fquarrofa, or yellow-flowered ochna: racemes 
lateral. This is a fmall tree. Leaves alternate, oblong, 
acute, finely ferrate, finooth, on fhort petioles, the youngeft 
remarkably coloured with purple ; four or five inches 
long, and two broad. Flowers large, yellow, inodorous ; 
calyx five-leaved ; leaflets oblong, as large as 'the petals, 
but not colqured, permanent; petals from feven to 
twelve, generally nine or ten, oblong, falling. 
Linnaeus remarks, that the Eaft Indian plant is certainly 
the fame with Plukenet’s, though-the leaves of this are 
more ovate, and thofeof the former ovatc-lanceolate, very 
finely and acutely ferrate. He alfo remarks a Angularity 
in this plant, whence it derives the trivial name ; that 
the racemes perfift below the leaves, whence the branch- 
lets become very JquarroJ'e, after the flowers and pedun¬ 
cles are fallen. In his fpecimen the petals had fallen off; 
and in Schreberit is deferibed as having no corolla. Na¬ 
tive of the Eafl Indies and’Africa. In the Circar Moun¬ 
tains it.flowers about the beginning of the hot feafon, at 
which time the leaves begin to come out, having eafl them 
during the cold feafon. In Ceylon it is called bokacrae 
and it is th e yerra-juvie of the Telingas. This is deli¬ 
neated (from Roxburgh) on the annexed Engraving. 
2. Ochna jabotapita : racemes terminating. This is a 
middle-fixed tree, with a grey irregular bark, and a foft 
pliant wood. Leaves alternately oppofite, pale green. 
Flowers abundant on certain branchlets, yellow, and very 
fweet. Pifo fays, that on each pedicel of the raceme there 
is a berry, the iize of a cherry-ftone, triangular-conical; 
and that three or four oval feflile berries are joined to 
thefe, of the fame fize, ail black, like thofe of our Vacci- 
nium myrtillus, or vvhorts, of an aftringent tafte; and 
that they are not only eaten raw, but that an oil is ex- 
preffed from them, which is ufed in fajads. Native of 
South America. 
3. Ochna parvifoli'a, or fmall-leaved ochna : peduncles' 
one-flowered. This is a fhrub refembling O. fquarrofa, 
except in the fize of the leaves and infiorefcence. Branches 
round, fmooth, with an afh-coloured dotted bark. Leaves 
only on the branchlets, petioled, oblong, ferrulate, quite 
entire at the bafe, veined, fhining, half an inch in length. 
Peduncles at the iides of the branchlets, folitary, gradually 
thickening upwards, purple, longer than the leaf. See 
Gompkia. 
O'CHO RI'OS, a bay on the north coaft.of the ifland 
of Jamaica. Lat. 18. 26. N. Ion. 76. 56. W. 
OCHO'TA, a river of Ruffia, which runs into the fea 
at the town of Ochotik. 
OCHOT'SK, a feaport-town of Ruffia, on the river 
(Schota. It gives name to a province which is part of the 
government of Irkutlk. From this port veflels fail to 
Kamtfchatka. As the vicinity of this place produces 
little or no grafs, provifions are brought hither from Ya- 
kutfle, both by land and water. Both modes of convey¬ 
ance are difficult and tedious. The land-carriage is by a 
road that lies over mountains, moraffes, and through thick 
woods of larch and beech trees; and, as the diltance is 919 
verfts, the journey with horfes and rein-deer takes up 
nearly fix weeks. The latter are furnifhed for this pur¬ 
pofe by the Tungulians, who live in the neighbourhood 
of Ochotfk, near the fea to which it gives name. Lat. 55.. 
28. N. Ion. 142 44. E. 
This town is longer than it is wide, and extends from 
eafl to weft nearly in a line. On the fouth fide is the fea, 
ata hundred yards from thehoufes, with a beach of flints 
between. On the north the. walls are walhed by the river 
Ochota, 
