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O R I 
O RIEL, or Oriol , f [ oriol , old Fr. “ porclie, allee, 
galerie,” Lacombe ; oriolum, low Latin.] A little wade 
room next the hall, where particular perfons dine. Such 
is the description by Coles, Di&. 1685. And the fenfe of 
oriolum is much the fame in Du Cange. It was a fort of 
recefs.—We may juftly prefume that Oriel or Oryal col¬ 
lege, in Oxford, took name from fuch room, or portico, 
or cloifter. Cowel. 
O'RIENCY, )'. [from orient .] Brightnefs of colour; 
ftrength of colour.-—In that they [angels] are finlefs, 
their created power is in its priftine vigour and oriency, 
immaculate. Water/ants on Fortefcue. —Black and thorny 
plum-tree is of the deepeft oricncy. Evelyn. 
O'RIENS, in ancient geography, is taken for all the 
mod eaftern parts of the world ; fuch as Parihia, India, 
Afiyria, &c. 
O'RIENT, adj. [oriens, Lat.] Rifingas the fun.—When 
fair morn orient in heaven appear’d. Milton's P. L. 
Moon that now meet’ft the orient fun, now fly’ll 
With the fix’d liars. Milton's P. L. 
Eaftern ; oriental.—Bright; fliining; glittering; gaudy; 
fparkling.—There do breed yearly an innumerable com¬ 
pany of gnats, whole property is to fly unto the eye of the 
Hon,as being a bright and orient thing. Abbot mi the World. 
The liquid drops of tears that you have Hied, 
Shall come again, transform’d to orient pearl, 
Advantaging their loan with intereft. Shahefpeare. 
The chiefs about their necks the fcutcheons wore, 
With orient pearls and jewels powder’d o’er. Dryden. 
O'RIENT, /’. [French.] The eaft ; the part where the 
fun firft appears.—Such fchemes as thefe were ufual to the 
nations of the orient. Mede's Paraphr. of St. Peter, 164.2. 
ORIEN'T (L’), a feaport town of France, and feat of a 
tribunal, in the department of the Morbihan, fituated at 
the bottom of a bay at the mouth of the river Scorf; 
built in the year 1720. The harbour is good, but not ca¬ 
pable of receiving many Ihips of war. The number of 
inhabitants is 19,922. It is eighteen pods fouth-weft of 
Rennes, and thirty-fix and three quarters weft of Paris. 
Lat. 47. 45. W. Ion. 3. 16. E. 
ORIEN'TAL, adj. Eaftern; placed in the eaft; pro¬ 
ceeding from the eaft.—Your ihips went as well to the 
pillars of Hercules, as to Pequin upon the oriental feas, 
as far as to the borders of the eaft Tartary. Bacon's New 
Atlantis. 
ORIEN'TAL, f. An inhabitant of the eaftern parts of 
the world.—They have been of that great ufe to follow¬ 
ing ages, as to be imitated by the Arabians and other ori¬ 
entals. Grew. 
ORIEN'TALISM, f. An idiom of the eaftern lan¬ 
guages; an eaftern mode of fpeech.— Dragons are a lure 
mark of orientalifm. Warton's lift. E. P. —Scholars unac¬ 
quainted with Hebrew will receive pleafure and inftruc- 
tion from a literal veriion of orientalij’ms immediately pre- 
fented to their eye, without the trouble of referring to a 
fervile Latin tranflation. A bp. Newcome's Ejfay on the 
Tranf. of the Bible. 
ORIEN'TALIST, f. An inhabitant of the eaftern parts 
of the world.—According to the received notion of the 
orientalfs. Biblioth. Bibl. —Who can tell how far the ori- 
entalifis were wont to adorn their parables ? Peters on Job. 
—One well acquainted with eaftern tongues. 
ORIENTAL'ITY, f. State of being oriental.—His re¬ 
volution being regular, it hath no efficacy peculiar from 
its orientality , but equally difperfeth his beams. Brown. 
OR'IFICE, J\ [Fr. from orficium, Lat.] Any opening 
or perforation.—The prince of Orange, in his firft hurt 
by the Spanilh boy, could find no means to ftanch the 
blood, but was fain to have the orifice of the wound 
flopped by men’s thumbs, fucceeding one another for the 
Apace of two days. Bacon. —Blood-letting, Hippocrates 
faith, fliould be done with broad lancets or fwords, in 
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order to make a large orifice by ftabbing or pertu(ion. 
Arbuthnot on Coins. 
Their mouths 
With hideous orifice gap’d on us wide. 
Portending hollow truce. Milton's P. I. 
O'RIFLAMB, f. [ oriflamme , old Fr. probably corrup¬ 
tion of aurifiamma, Lat. or fiamme d'or, Fr.] A golden 
ftandard : 
Yet holy Lewis with his Frenchmen ftrook 
Into the Pagans fuch deep fright, that they 
At his illuftrious orifiambes look, 
Unto his vi&ories gave willing way. Beaumont. 
Refpefling the oriflamme, or banner of St. Denis, of 
which fo much is faid in the early parts of the hiftory of 
France, M. du Cange writes thus: “ It was the banner, 
or ufual ftandard, which the abbot and monks of the royal 
abbey of St. Denis made ufe of in their private wars; that 
is to fay, in thofe which they undertook to recover their 
pofleffions from the hands of ufurpers, or to prevent them 
from being feized upon. But, as their ecclefiaftical (late 
did not allow them to ufe arms perfonally, they delegated 
this to a proxy, who received their ftandard from the 
hands of the abbot, and bore it before him in battle. 
This was the real ufe made of the oriflamme, although 
fome learned perfons have written otherwife, and have 
advanced what is but little conformable to truth. The 
name of oriflamme was given to this ftandard, becaufe it 
was flit up from the bottom to refemble flames, or per¬ 
haps from its being of a red colour: when it fluttered in 
the wind, it appeared at a diltance like flames; and be- 
fides, the lance to which it was fixed was gilded. The 
oriflamme was then the particular banner of the abbot 
and monaftery of St. Denis, which they had borne in their 
wars by their proxies, who, in quality of defenders or 
protestors of monafteries and churches, undertook to 
lead their vaflals in the defence of their rights, and to bear 
their ftandards in war ; hence they have been called Sig- 
niferi Ecclefiarum, Standard-bearers to the Church. The 
counts of Vexin and of Pontoife had this title in the mo¬ 
naftery of St. Denis, of which they were the proxies and 
guardians; and in this quality they bore the oriflamme in 
the wars which they undertook in the defence of its pro¬ 
perty. From this the banner has been by authors more 
commonly called the ftandard of St. Denis; not becaufe it 
was preferved in the church of that monaftery, but be¬ 
caufe it was the banner ufually borne in the wars in which 
this abbey was concerned. We may therefore conclude, 
that it was not borne by our kings in their wars until 
they were become proprietors of the counties of Pontoife 
and Mante, that is to fay, of the Vexin, which happened 
during the reign of Philip I. or of Louis le Gros, his 
fon; and that it was in this quality they firft bore the 
ftandard of St. Denis in their wars. Hiftory is filent on 
the fubjeft before the reign of Louis le Gros; for I pay 
no attention to thofe who have advanced, that it was 
known from the times of Dagobert, Pepin, and Charle¬ 
magne ; all fuch hiftories as have been lo fertile in fables 
being very properly reputed apocryphal. We may then 
juftly conclude, that Louis le Gros was the firft of our mo- 
narchs who, in quality of count of the Vexin, took the 
oriflamme from the altar of St. Denis, and had it borne in 
his armies, as the principal banner of the proteflor of his 
kingdom, whofe fuccour he invoked by his cries of battle, 
more efpecially when he learnt that Henry V. king of 
Germany was marching his troops into France. It has 
happened, confequently, that our monarchs, who poflefled 
themfelves of the rights of thefe counts, have ufed this 
banner in their own wars, as being the ftandard that bore 
the name of the protettor of their kingdom, as I have Ire- 
fore noticed, taking it from off the altar of the church of 
St. Denis with the fame ceremonies and prayers that were 
ufually obferved when it was delivered into the hands of 
the counts du Vexin for the private wars of the monaftery. 
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