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this matter is viewed in a very different light; and the 
attempt to introduce an organ into St. Andrew's church 
at Glafgow in the year 1807, produced a very unmnjical 
effe£t. In this inftanee, the dread of innovation has ope¬ 
rated as ftrongly on the governors of the northern as it 
ever has been known to influence thofe of the fouthern 
eftabliffiment; and our Englifh readers will be furprifed 
to hear it afferted, that the introduction of an organ in 
divine worfhip is in faft “ forbidden by the fecond com¬ 
mandment,” fince they will not be able to perceive the 
connexion between image-worfltip and inftrumental mu- 
fic. The committee of the pretbytery moreover contended, 
that we are not warranted to transfer the inftrumental 
mufic of the Jewifti into the Chriftian church ; that the 
authority of the early Chriftian church is againft its ufe ; 
that the Scotch reformers were adverfe to it; and that 
the organ introduced into St. Andrew’s church, was a 
violation of the purity and uniformity of their public 
worfliip. Notwithftanding the difcretion of Dr. Ritchie, 
the minifter of St. Andrew’s, in preventing all voluntaries 
and flouriflies, and in keeping the organ to a Ample ac¬ 
companiment of the precentor or clerk, his conduCt was 
much cenfured, and it led the pretbytery formally to pro¬ 
hibit the ufe of organs in all their churches and chapels. 
See “ Statement of the Proceedings of the Pretbytery of 
Glafgow relative to the Ufe of an Organ in St. Andrew’s 
Church, on the 23d of Auguft, 1807.” 
To OR'GAN, v. a. To form organically. Not in ufe .'— 
Would’ft thou be treated with in the ineffable dialed! of 
heaven ? Alas! fond creature, thou art elemented and 
organed for other apprehenfions, for a lower commerce of 
perception. Mannyngham's Difc. 1681. 
OR'GAN-BUILDER, f. One whofe bufinefs it is to 
» conftrudt organs. 
OR'GAN-LING. See Orgeis. 
OR'GAN-LOFT, f. The loft where the organ ftands. 
—Five young ladies, who are of no fmall fame for their 
great feverity of manners, would go no-where with their 
lovers but to an organ-loft in a church, where they had a 
cold treat and fome few opera-fongs. Tatler, N° 61. 
OR'GAN-PIPE, f The pipe of a mufical organ.—A 
hand of a vail extenlion, and a prodigious number of fin¬ 
gers, playing upon all the organ-pipes in the world, and 
making every one found a particular note. Keil. 
The thunder, 
That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc’d 
The name of Profper. Shakefpeare's Tempeft. 
ORGA'NA (Andrea), an eminent painter, poet, and 
architect: he was born at Florence in 1329, and died in 
* 38$- The g reate ft P art of his paintings are at Pifa ; and, 
in his pi&ure of the Univerfal Judgment, he painted his 
friends in heaven, and his foes in hell. 
ORGAN'IC, or Organical, adj. [ organique , Fr. or- 
ganicus, Lat.] Confiding of various parts co-operating 
with each other.— The organical ftrudlure of human 
bodies, whereby they live and move, and are vitally in¬ 
formed by the foul, is the workmanfliip of a molt wife, 
powerful, and beneficent, Being. Bentley. 
Fie with ferpent-tongue 
Organic , or impulfe of vocal air. 
His fraudulent temptation thus began. 3 Iilton's P. L. 
Inftrumental; adting as inftruments of nature or art, to a 
certain end.—Read with them thofe organic arts which 
enable men todifcourfe and write perfpicuoufly, elegantly, 
and according to the fitted ftyle of lofty, mean, or lowly. 
Blilton on Education. — Refpedting organs.— They who 
want the fenfe of difcipline, or hearing, are by confe- 
quence deprived of fpeech, not by any immediate organic 
cal indifpofition, but for want of difcipline. Holder. 
ORGAN'ICALLY, adv. By means ofor gans or inftru¬ 
ments; by organical difpofition of parts.—All Hones, 
metals, and minerals, are real vegetables; that is, grow 
organically from feeds, as well as plants. Locke. 
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ORGAN'ICALNESS, f. State of being organical. 
OR'GANISM, f Organical ftrudlure.—How admira¬ 
ble is the natural ftrudlure or organifm of bodies. Grew's 
Oof mol. Sac. 
OR'GANIST, f. One who plays on the organ.—An 
organi/l ferves that office in a public choir. Boi/le. 
ORGANIZATION, / [from organize .] Conftrudlion, 
in which the parts are fo difpofed as to be fubfervient to 
each other.—That being then one plant, which has fuch 
an organization of parts in one coherent body, partaking 
of one common life, it continues to be the fame plant, 
though that life be communicated to new particles of 
matter, in a like continued organization. Locke. 
To OR'GANIZE, v. a. [organifer , Fr. from organ.~\ To 
conftrudt fo as that one part co-operates with another; 
to form organically.—The identity of the fame man con- 
fifts in a participation of the fame continued life, by con- 
ftantly fleeting particles in fucceffion vitally united to the 
fame organized, body. Locke. 
ORGAN'NA, a town of Spain, in the province of Ca¬ 
talonia : eighteen miles north of Solfona. 
OR'GANY, J'. [opgane, Sax.] An herb. See Origa¬ 
num. — Organie healeth lcabs. Gerard's Herball, 1597. 
ORGANZI'NE,/ Silk compofed of two, three, or four, 
threads of raw filk, twilled, and fo combined as to obtain 
the greateft ftrength. See the article Silk. —The filk 
made here (in Hampfhire) not forty years ago, was as 
good in quality as the Piedmontefe; and we have now two 
engines, one at Derby and the other at Sherborne, where 
filk might be converted into organzine, or rather organ- 
cine. Campbell's Survey of Britain, vol. i. 
OR'GAS, a town of Spain, in New Caftile: twelve 
miles fouth-fouth-ealt of Toledo. 
OR'GASM, / [ orgafme , Fr. opyetapoi;, Gr.] Sudden 
vehemence.—This rupture of the lungs, and confequent 
fpitting of blood, ufually arifes from an orgafm , or im¬ 
moderate motion of the blood. Blackmore. — By means 
of the curious lodgment and inofculation of the audi¬ 
tory nerves, the orgafms of the fpirits ftiould be allayed, 
and perturbations of the mind quieted. Derham. 
OR'GE, a river of France, which runs into the Seine 
thirty miles fouth of Paris. 
ORGEAT', / [French.] A liquor extracted from bar¬ 
ley and fweet almonds. Mafon. 
ORGE'IS,/. A fea-fifli, called likewife Organ-ling. 
Both feetn a corruption of the Orkeny-ling, as being taken 
on the Orkney coaft. Ainfworth. — See Gadus molva, 
vol. viii. p. 159, 60. 
OR'GELET, a town of France, and principal place of 
a diftridl, in the department of the Jura: twelve miles 
fouth of Lons le Saunier, and twenty fouth of Poligny. 
Lat. 45. 31. N. Ion. 5. 41. E. 
ORGE'RES, a towm of France, in the department of 
the Eure and Loire : twelve miles fouth-weft of Janville. 
OR'GIA, a town of Etruria: fix miles fouth-weft of 
Sienna. 
OR'GIA, [Greek.] Feafts and lacrifices performed in 
honour of Bacchus, inftituted by Orpheus, and chiefly 
celebrated on the mountains, by wild diftradted women, 
called Bacchcc. Eufebius derives the w’ord from ogyy j, 
fury, madnefs ; others from opoj, a mountain, becaufe 
Orpheus removed from Thrace to Mount Citheron ; 
others from opyoc.;, a place confecrated to fome divinity; 
others from etgyav, to remove, to repulfe, becaufe the 
profane were to be driven away. We prefer the firft ety¬ 
mology. 
Theorgia were alfo called Orpkica, from their inftitutor; 
and Bacchanalia, Dionyfia, and Liberalia. It is a fact, 
agreed upon by both mythologifts and antiquaries, that 
the orgies derived their origin from Egypt; and that 
they owe their inftitution to Ills, who, having recovered 
the members of her hufband, who had been murdered by 
confpirators headed by Typhon his brother, and being 
unable to find the virile parts, which the fillies of the 
Nile had devoured, confecrated the reprefentation of 
them, 
