473 O M N 
Exhibiting tokens good or ill.—Though he had a good 
ominous name to have made a peace, nothing followed. 
Baeon's Hen. VII. 
It brave to him, and ominous, does appear. 
To be oppos’d at firft, and conquer here. Cowley. 
OM'INOUSLY, adv. With good or bad omen.—We 
fee then how credible an author Manetho is, and what 
truth there is like to be in the account of ancient times 
given by the Egyptian hiftorians, when the chief of them 
fo lamentably and ominovjly (fumbles in his very entrance 
into it. Stillingfleet's Orig. Sac. 
To me how ominovjly the prophet fung, 
Even from the time the heavenly infant fprung 
In my chafte womb! Old Simeon this reveal’d, 
And in my foul the deadly wound beheld. Sandys. 
OM'INOUSNESS, f. The quality of being ominous. 
—When the day, fet for his audience, came, there hap¬ 
pened to be fuch an extraordinary thunder, and fuch de¬ 
luges of rain, as difgraced the (how, and heightened the 
opinion of the ominovfnefs of this emba(Ty. Burnet's Hi/!, 
oj his own Times. 
OMIS'SION, f. [omiffus, Lat.] Negleft todo fomething; 
forbearance of fomething to be done.—Whilft they were 
held back, purely by doubts and fcruples, and want of 
knowledge without their own faidts, their omijfwn was 
fit to be connived at. Kettlewell. —If he has made'no pro- 
vifion for this change, the omijjion can never be repaired, 
the time never redeemed. Rogers —Negleft of duty, op- 
pofed to commiffion or perpetration of crimes.—The 
mod natural divifion of all offences, is into thofe of 
omijjion and thofe of commiflion. Addifon's Freeholder. 
Omijjion to do what is neceflary, 
Seals a commiflion to a blank of danger. Shuhefpeare. 
To OMIT', v.a. [omitto, Lat.] To leave out, not to 
mention.—Thefe perfonal companions 1 omit, becaufe I 
wouid fay nothing that may favour of a fpirit of flattery. 
Bacon. 
Great Cato there, for gravity renowr.’d ; 
Who can omit the Gracchi, who declare 
The Scipios’ worth ? Dryden. 
To negleft to praftjfe.—Her father omitted nothing in her 
education that might make her the moftaccomplifhed wo¬ 
man of her age. Addifon. 
OMI'TA, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat: twenty- 
eight miles ealt of Cambay. 
OMIT'TANCE, f. Forbearance. Not in life. 
Fie faid, mine eyes were black, and my hair black ; 
And now' I am remember’d, (corn’d at me ! 
I marvel why I anfwer’d not again ; 
But that’s all one, omittance is no quittance. Shahefp. 
OM'LAND, f. A deputy of the Dutch province of 
Friefland.—This aft was figned by the deputies of Guei- 
derland, Zutphen, Holland, Zealand, Utrecht, and the 
omlands of Fries. Temple. 
OM'LI, a town of Norway : forty miles north-north-eaft 
of Chriftianfand. 
OMM-FARED'GE, or Eumme' Faregge', a canal of 
Egypt, cut from lake Mapzaleh to the Mediterranean : 
fup’pofed to be the mouth of that ancient canal called the 
Tanitic or Saitic branch of the Nile. 
OMMAGANG', a town of Norway : forty-eight miles 
fouth of Porfanger. 
OM'MELANDS, a diflrift of Holland, furrounding 
the city of Groningen, but independent of it. 
OM'MEN, a town of Holland, in the department of 
Overifle!, on the Vecht: eighteen miles fouth-ead of Co- 
vorden. 
OMMIRABI'H. See Morbeya. 
OM'MO ZAI'DI, a country of Africa, on the couft 
of Ajan, feventy miles from the fea, about lat. 6. N. 
OM'NE, f. [Latin.] With logicians, a whole, a genus. 
O M N 
OMNE'ITY,/. [from the Lat. omnis, all.] The (late bf 
containing all things. Cole. 
_ OMNIFA'RIOUS, adj. [omnifariam , Lat.] Of all va¬ 
rieties or kinds.—Thefe particles could never of them- 
felves, by omnifarious kinds of motion, whether fortui¬ 
tous or mechanical, have fallen into this vifible fyftem. 
Bentley. 
But, if thou omnifarious drinks would’ft brew, 
Befides the orchard, every hedge and buth 
Affords afliftance. Philips. 
OMNIF'EROUS, adj. [omnis and fero, Lat.] All¬ 
bearing. 
OMNIF'IC, adj. [omnis and/aclo, Lat.] All-creating: 
Silence, ye troubled waves, and thou deep, peace ! 
Said then the Omnific Word, your difcord.end. Milton. 
OM'NIFORM, adj. [ omnis and forma, Lat.] Having 
every (liape.—What elfe need, and what elfe can be, the 
immediate objeft of our underftanding, but the divine 
ideas, the omnifurm eflence of God ? Norris's Rifled, on 
Locke. —The living fire, the living omniform fend nary of 
the word, and other expreflions of the like nature, in 
the ancient and Platonick philofophy. Bp. Berkeley's 
Siris. 
OMNIFOR'MITY, f. Quality of poflefling every (hape. 
—Truth in the power, or faculty, is nothing elfe but a 
conformity of its conceptions or ideas unto the natures 
and relations of things; which in God we may call an 
aftual, fteady, immovable, eternal, omviformity , as Plo¬ 
tinus calls the Divine Intelleft stana,. Bp. Raft's Dili;, 
on Truth. 
OMNIG'ENOUS, adj. [from the Lat. omnis, all, and 
genus, a kind.] Confiding of all kinds. 
OM'NIMODE, adj. [from the Lat. omnis, all, and 
modus, a manner.] Confiding of all fafhions. Cole. 
OMNIMO'DOUS, adj. Containing all modes. Scott. 
O MNIPA'RIENT, adj. [from the Lat. omnis, all, and 
pario, to bring forth.] Bringing forth all things, produ¬ 
cing all things. Scott. 
OMNIPARITY, f. General equality.—Their own. 
working heads affeft, without commandment of the 
word, to wit, omniparity of churchmen. White. 
OMNIPERCIP'IENCE, or Omnitercipiency, f. 
[from the Lat. omnis, all, and percipio, to perceive.] Per¬ 
ception of every thing.—This omniprefence, or pmniper- 
cipience terredrial, is one main ground of that religious 
worfhip due to God which we call invocation. Move's 
Antid. agaiiift Idolatry .—All the modes or ways of the 
communication of this omnipercipiency to faints or angels 
are either very incredible, if not impoflible, orextremely 
ridiculous as to any excufe for their invocation. More. 
OMNIPERCIP'IENT, adj. Perceiving every thing.—• 
An omnipercipient omniprefence, which does hear and 
fee whatever is faid or tranfafted in the world, is a cer¬ 
tain excellency in God. More's Antid. againjl Idolatry. 
OMNIPOTENCE, or Ommifotency, J'. [ omnipotence, 
oldFr. omnipotentia, 'Lat.] Almighty power ; unlimited 
power.—The greated danger is from the greateft power, 
and that is omnipotency. Tillotjon. 
How are thy fervants bled, O Lord, 
How fure is their defence ; 
Eternal wifdom is their guide. 
Their help omnipotence ! Addifon. 
OMNIPOTENT, adj. [from the Lat. omnis, all, and 
potens, powerful.] Almighty ; powerful without limit; 
all-powerful.—You were alfo Jupiter, a fwan, for the 
love of Leda: oh, omnipotent love! how near the god 
drew to the complexion of a goofe ! Shakejpeare's Murry 
Wives of Windfor. —The perfeft Being mult needs be om- 
7 iipotent; both as felf-exiltent and as immenfe : for he that 
is felf-exident, having the power of being, bath the power 
of all-being; equal to the caufe of all-being, which is to 
be omnipotent. Grew. 
OMNIPOTENT, 
