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OFF'WARD, aclv. From the (hore. A Jea-term. 
OFF'WARD, adj. Leaning from the fliore. 
OF'LEY (Great), a village in Hertfordfnire, on the 
fouth-weft fide of Hitchin, where OtFa, the Mercian king, 
lived a good while, and died. On the eaft fide of it there 
is a fine feat, with a park, called Ofley-place. Here is a 
ctiarity-fchool.—Little Ofley is on the north fide of Great 
Ofiey, of which it was a hamlet;-Hands on the ledge of 
hills on the north fide of the couflty, and is called by 
feme the Alps of England. The Roman Ikenild-way, 
which divides this county from Bedfordfhire till it comes 
hither, pafles between this place and Hexton. 
OFT, adv. [Sax. from of, oft, too much. In the fu- 
perlative, oftejl .] Often; frequently; not rarely; not 
ieldom.—In labours more abundant, in ftripes above mea- 
fure, in prifonsmore frequent, in deaths oft. z Cor. ii. 23. 
—It may be a true faith, for fo much as it is; it is one 
part of true faith, which is oft miftaken for the whole. 
Hammond. 
Glory and popular praife, 
Rocks, whereon greateflmen have oftefi wreck’d. Milton. 
Favours to none, to all fhe fmiles extends; 
Oft file rejefts, but never once offends. Pope. 
OF'TEN, adv. [from opr, Sax. In the comparative, 
oftener, oftner; fuperlative, oftenejl, oftnejl.] Oft; fre¬ 
quently ; many times ; not feldom.—Who does not more 
admire Cicero as an author, than as a conlul of Rome ? 
and does not oftner talk of the celebrated writers of our 
pwn country in former ages, than of any among their con¬ 
temporaries ? Addifon's Freeholder. 
A lufty black-brow’d girl, with forehead broad and high. 
That pften had bewitcht the fea-gods with hereye. Drayton. 
OF'TEN, adj. Frequent.— Our merciful God firft vi- 
fited this people in great and often mercy. Alp. Sandys. — 
Ufe a little wine for thy ftomach’s fake, and thine often 
infirmities. 1 Tim. v. 23.—See, by often trials, what turn 
they take. Locke. 
OF'TENNESS, f Frequency.—Degrees of well-doing 
there could be none, except in the feldomnefs and oflen- 
nejs of doing well. Hooker. 
OF'TENTIMES, adv. [ often and times. From the 
compofition of this word it is reafonable to believe, that 
oft was once an adjc£live, of which often was the plural; 
which feems retained in the phrale Thine often infirmities. 
See Often.] Frequently; many times; often.—It is 
equally neceflary that there thould be a future (fate, to 
vindicate thejuilice of God,and folve the prefent irregu¬ 
larities of Providence, whether the bell men be oftentimes 
only, or always, the moft miferable. Atterbury. 
OF'TIA., f. in botany. See Spielmannia. 
OFT'TIMES, adv. Frequently; often.— Ofttimes be¬ 
fore I hither did refort. Dryden and Lee. 
Ofttimes nothing profits more 
Than felf-efteem, grounded on julfc.and right. Milton. 
OFVAN'AKER, a town of Sweden, in the province 
of Helfingland : thirty-feven miles weft of Soderhamn. 
OF'VERBY, a town of Sweden, in Weft Bothnia: 
thirty-two miles north-weft of Pitea. 
OG, [Heb. a cake.] King of Bafhan, was one of the 
giants. His bedftead was of iron, and was nine cubits 
longand four broad ; which, according to Calmet, is above 
15 feet long, and near 7 feet broad. Wolfius will have 
Og to have been more than 13 feet high. To relate the 
rafibinnic fables of liis living before the flood, hanging on 
the fide of the ark, and receiving food from Noah, is un¬ 
worthy of this work; but it is certain, that, when he 
heard of the overthrow of Sihon by Mofes, he collefled 
all his fubjedls able to bear arms, to attack the Hebrews 
at Edrei. His hoft was routed, himfelf killed, and his 
country feized ; but the Ammonites fome time after car¬ 
ried off his iron bedftead, and kept it in Rabbah, their 
capital, as a curiofity. Num. xxi. 33. Deut. iii. 1-14. 
OG'BOURN St. GEOR'GE, a village in Wiitfliire, 
Vol. XVII. No. xi88. 
near Marlborough. In repairing one of the walls of the 
ancient church of this place in July laft, (1819,) the work¬ 
men difeovered a large group of figures painted on the 
wall, covering a fpace of feventeen feet fquare, which ap¬ 
pear to be the Defcent into Hell, the Laft Judgment, and 
the Triumph of the Church. Many of the figures are in 
a perfeft ftate. On the wall above the columns of the 
middle aide they found under the white wafhing a figure 
upwards of nine feet high, in the pofition of ftriking a 
ftaff on the ground ; and beneath the painting a fmall de- 
fign of a fnip, with marine emblems. 
OGBUCTO'E, a fettlement on the eaft coaft of Labra¬ 
dor. Lat. 55. 55. N. Ion. 60. W. 
OG'DEN (Samuel), a learned divine of the church of 
England, was born at Manchefter in 1716. Having been 
inftrubied in grammar-learning at the free-fehool in his 
native town, he was entered of King’s College, Cam¬ 
bridge, in 1733, from which he removed to St. John’s in 
the year 1736. He took his degree of B.A. in 1738, and 
in the following year was eledled fellow of his college. 
In 1740 he received deacon’s orders; and foon after was 
admitted to the degree of M. A. and ordained prieft. 
Three years after this, he was elefted mailer of the free- 
fchool at Halifax in Yorkfliire, which he retained till the 
year 1753, when he went to refide at the univerfity of 
Cambridge. At the firft Commencement after his return, 
he took the degree of D. D. and on that occafion recom¬ 
mended himfelf fo ftrongly to the duke of Newcaftle, who 
was chancellor of the univerfity, by the exercife which he 
performed, that his grace preiented him to the vicarage 
of Damerhatn in Wiitfliire. In 1764 he was appointed 
Woodwardian profeflor, and in 1766 was preiented to 
the reftory of Lawford in Eflex, and alfo to that of Stanf- 
field in Suffolk. Dr. Ogden had acquired great celebrity 
in the univerfity by the popularity of his preaching ; and 
in 1770 he publiflied a volume of “ Sermons on the Effi¬ 
cacy of Prayer and Interceffion ;” wdiich being very fa¬ 
vourably received, he printed, in 1776, another volume 
“ On the Ten Commandments to which, in the follow¬ 
ing year, he added a third, “ On the Articles of the Chrif- 
tian Faith.” He died in the year 1778, in the fixty-fecond 
year of his age. His fermons are fhort, animated, and 
ftriking. Sometimes the author rifes to the fuhlime, and 
fometimes he is diftinguiflied by beautiful ftrokes of pathos. 
His method is defultory; his reafoning is not always per- 
fpicuous; and his ftyle, though correct and clear, is too 
concife and abrupt to be recommended as a model of 
good compofition on general fubjefts. In the year 1780, 
Dr. Halifax publiflied a new edition of his fermons, in two 
volumes oftavo, with a memoir prefixed, to which the 
reader is referred for further particulars. 
OGDOAS'TICH,/.’ [oyJoo? and nx°s> Gr.] A poem 
of eight lines.—His requelt to Diana in an hexaftich, and 
her anfwer in an ngdoaftic/i, hexameters and pentameters, 
are in the Britifli ftory. Selden on Drayton's Polyolb. —It 
will not be much out of the bias to infert, in this ogdo- 
ajiique, a few verfes of the Latin which was fpoken in that 
age. Houell's Inftr. for Trav. 
OGEE', or Ogive, f. [ogive, angive, Fr.] A fort of 
moulding in architeblure, confifting of a round and a 
hollow, almoft in the form of an S; and is the fame with 
what Vitruvius calls cima. —Cima reverfu is an ogee with 
the hollow downwards. Harris. —See Architecture. 
OGEECHEE', a river of the ftate of Georgia, which 
runs into the Oflabaw Sound in lat. 41. 47. N.Ton. 81. 
15. W. 
OGELSTRO'MEN, a river of Sweden, which rifes in 
the mountains bordering on Norway, and runs into the 
Angermann near Liden. 
OGENDO'W, a town of Birmah : ten miles fouth-weft 
of Pegongmew. 
OGER'SKOI, a town ofRuflia, in the government of 
Perm : fifty-two miles weft of Perm. 
OGES'IMA, a fmall ifland of Japan, in the ftrait be¬ 
tween Niphon and Xicoco. 
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