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O L 1 
germen. It is a paradoxical plant, in its artificial cha¬ 
racters not much unlike the natural order of oleinse, but 
in habit totally different. Br. Prodr. Nov. Holl.i. 549. 
OLIGOT'ROPHOUS, adj. [from oligotrophy.'] Nou- 
riihing but little; having little nourifhment. 
OLIGOT'ROPHY, f. [from the Gr. oXtyog, final!, and 
rgotpea, to nourifli.] A fmall degree of nourifhment; a 
decreafe of nourifhment. 
OLI'KA, a town of Poland, in Volhynia: twenty-three 
miles north-eaft of Lucko. 
OLIKAN', a fmall ifland of Ruflia, in the Penzinfkoi 
Sea. Lat. 60. 16. N. Ion. 155. 36. E. 
O'LIL, a town of Africa, in Calbari, on the Rio del 
Rey. Lat. 4.15. N. 
OLIM'PIA, a town of European Turkey, in the Morea: 
thirty-two miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Chiarenza. 
OLIM'PO, a mountain of European Turkey, in Thef- 
faly : ten miles north of Lariffa. See Olympus. 
OLIM'PO, a mountain of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia: 
fifty miles north-weft of Kiutaja. 
OLI'NA, in ancient geography, a town of Spain, in 
the Tarragonenfis, fituated in the interior of the country 
of the people called Callaici Lucenfci. Ptolemy. 
OLIN'DA, [Portuguefe, beautiful.] The name of a 
province and city of Portuguefe South America, of which 
a fhort account is given under Fernambuc, by which 
name they are alfo known. 
O'LIO, J'. [olla, Spanifh.] A mixture; a medley. See 
Oglio and Olla. — Ben Jonfon, in his Sejanus and 
Catiline, has given us this olio of a play, this unnatural 
mixture of comedy and tragedy. Dryden on Dramatic 
Poetry. 
OLIOU'LES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Var: four miles weft of Toulon, and thirty fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Aix. 
OL'IPHANTS, a town of North-Carolina: twenty 
miles weft of Salifbury. 
OLI'SI, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carnatic : eight 
miles north-eaft of Ongole. 
OLIS'IPO, in ancient geography, a town of Lufitania, 
fituated on the north fide of the Tagus ; of luch antiquity, 
that Solinus thought it was built by Ulyfles; and Mela, 
probably to favour this opinion, writes, according to the 
common copies, Ulyjfipo; both of them perhaps deceived 
by the fimilarity of lound. It was a municipium, with 
the furname Felicitas Julia, a privilege granted by the 
munificence of Auguftus. Now Lisbon. 
OLI'TA, a town of Mexico, in the province of 
Xalifco. 
OLI'TA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Troki: twenty-eight miles fouth-weft of Troki. 
OLI'TA, a town of Spain, in Navarre. It was formerly 
the refidence of the kings of Navarre, but is at prefent 
much reduced. It contains four churches, and two con¬ 
vents : twenty miles fouth of Pamplona, and thirteen weft 
of Sanguefa. Lat. 43.30. N. Ion. 1.42. W. 
OL'ITORY, J'. [olitorins , Latin.] A garden of herbs ; 
a kitchen-garden. 
OL'ITORY, adj. Belonging to the kitchen-garden.— 
Gather your olitory feeds. Evelyn's Kalendar. 
OLI'VA, a feaport-town of Pomerania, fituated on a 
bay in the Baltic. At a convent in this place, a peace 
was concluded between the emperor and the kings of 
Sweden and Poland, in the year 1660 : ten miles weft of 
Dantzic. Lat. 54. 26. N. Ion. 18. 22. E. 
OLI'VA, a town of Spain, in Valencia, near the coaft 
of the Mediterranean ; in the neighbourhood of which, 
the inhabitants cultivate fugar-canes : five miles ealf of 
Gandia, and forty north of Alicant. 
OLI'VA, a fmall ifland in the Mediterranean, near the 
coaft of Caramania. Lat. 36.25. N. Ion. 33.10. E. 
OLI'VA (Alexander), a celebrated Italian cardinal, 
was defcended from parents in humble life, and born at 
Saxoferrato in the year 1409. When very young, he 
entered among the hermits of St. Auguftine, and purfued 
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his ftudies fucceflively at Rimini, Bologna, and Perufia. 
In the laft-mentioned city, he was appointed firit pro- 
feflor of philofophy ; and after that obliged, greatly 
againft his inclination, to fill the poft of attorney-general 
of his order. The duties of this office neceflarily required 
his prefence at Rome, where his learning and his virtues 
rendered him the objeCt of univerfal refpeCt and admira¬ 
tion, notwithftanding that his great modefty and humility 
led him as much as poflible to avoid public notice. How¬ 
ever, the Romans were gratified with his fervices in the 
pulpit, in which he was admired as a fublime divine and 
moft eloquent orator. He alfo preached with high repu¬ 
tation at Naples, Venice, Bologna, Florence, Mantua, 
Ferrara-, and the other principal cities of Italy. He was 
chofen vicar-general, and afterwards, in 1459, general of 
his order. By pope Pius II. he was held in great efteem, 
and promoted to the purple in the year 1460. This 
learned pope afterwards nominated him bifliop of Ca- 
merino, and availed himfelf of his talents in various 
important negociations. Cardinal Oliva died at Tivoli, 
where the court of Rome then relided, in the year 1463, 
at the age of fifty-four, regretted by numerous friends, 
who were ftrongly attached to him by the amiable qua¬ 
lities of his private character. He was the author of 
various works, which are monuments of his erudition 
and of his piety. Moreri. 
OLI'VA (Giovanni), a learned antiquary, was born in 
1686 at Rovigo in the Venetian territory. He embraced 
the ecclefiaftical profeffion, and was ordained prieft in 
1711. His literary reputation caufed him immediately 
after to be nominated profeflor of the belles lettres at 
Azzolo, which poft he occupied during- eight years. In 
1718, he publilhed at Venice a learned treatife, “ De 
Antiqua in Romanis fcholis Grammaticorum difciplina.” 
Being invited to Rome in 1719 by pope Clement XI. he 
appeared with diftinCtion among the learned men of that 
capital. On occaflon of the dilcovery among fome ruins 
of a four-footed marble of Ifis, he wrote aiatin dilfertation 
upon it, in w'hich hedifplayed much erudition refpeCting 
the Egyptian mythology. The cardinal de Rohan, in 
1722, made theabbe his librarian, which office he retained 
during the remainder of his life, occupying himfelf in- 
defatigably in enriching the vaft collection of that prelate, 
and drawing up an exaCt account of its contents. The 
Catalogue, w'hich he left in manufcript, amounted to 
twenty-fivo volumes, folio. He gave an edition in 1723 
of fome Letters of Poggio, which had hitherto remained 
in manufcript. He made a choice collection of books of 
his own, of which a catalogue was printed. The abbe 
Oliva died at Paris in 1757. After his death were printed 
liis works, conlilting of the two Diflertations above men¬ 
tioned, together with another, pronounced at Azzolo, 
On the Necelfity of adding the Study of Medals to that 
of Hiftory. Moreri. 
OLIVA'RES, a towm of Spain, in Old Caftile : eighteen 
miles fouth-eaft of Valladolid. 
OLI'VAS, a town of Portugal, in the province of Beira: 
fix miles fouth-weft of Vifeu. 
OLIVAS'TER, J'. The wild olive. See El^agnus. 
OLIVAS'TER, adj. [olivajlre , Fr.] Darkly brown ; 
tawny.—The Bannyans are olivajter, or of a tawny com¬ 
plexion. Sir T. Herbert's Trav. —The countries of the 
Abyffenes, Barbary, and Peru, where they are tawny, 
olivafter, and pale, are generally more fandy. Bacon's 
Nat. Hiji. 
OL'IVE,/ [Fr. olea, Lat. from the Gr. eXsax.] A plant 
producing oil. (See Olea.) The emblem of peace. The 
fruit of the tree.—It is laid out into a grove, a vineyard, 
and an allotment for olives and herbs. Broome. 
OL'IVE, J'. in cookery, a kind of collop. Mrs. Glafs. 
OL'IVE (Peter John d’), a celebrated Francifcan monk 
in the thirteenth century, was regarded as chief of that 
branch of the order which diiputed fo frequently with 
the popes in favour of the renunciation of property, in 
obedience to the rule of St. Francis. He acquired, by his 
writings, 
