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out-of the chancery are called by this name; and diftin- 
guifhed from recorda, which contain the judgments and 
pleadings in fuits tried before the barons. Thefe tran- 
fcripts contain extrafts of all grants of the crown inrolled 
on the patent and other rolls in chancery, wherein any 
rent is received, any falary payable, or any fervice to be 
performed. They commence temp. Hen. III. and are 
continued to a late period. Report on Records, 1800. 
ORIGIN AL'ITY, f. Quality or (late of being original. 
—Here alio hangs the celebrated Madonna del Pelce of 
Raphael, one of the molt valuable piftures in the world. 
I do not know how Amiconi came to doubt of its origi¬ 
nality. Swinburne's Travels through Spain. —The owners 
really believed thefe pictures to be original, and among 
the belt of the refpe< 5 live matters to whom they were at¬ 
tributed ; and it would have been the higheft affront to 
have exprelfed a doubt of their originality. Gougli. 
ORl'GINALLY, adv. Primarily; with regard to the 
firft caule; from the beginning.—Avery great difference 
between a king that holdeth his crown by a willing a£t of 
eftates, and one that holdeth it originally by the law of 
nature and defcent of blood. Bacon. —At firft.—The me¬ 
tallic and mineral matter, found in the perpendicular in¬ 
tervals of the ftrata, was originally, and at the time of the 
deluge, lodged in the bodies of thofe ftrata. Woodward .— 
A* the firft author : 
For what originally others writ, 
May be fo well difguis’d and fo improv’d, 
That with fomejuftice it may pafs for yours. Rofcommon. 
ORI'GINALNESS, f. The quality or ftate of being 
original. 
ORI'GINARY, adj. [originaire , Fr. from origin] 
Productive; caufing exiftence.—The production of ani¬ 
mals in the originary way, requires a certain degree of 
warmth, which proceeds from the fun’s influence. Cheyne's 
Phil. Prin. —Primitive; that which was the firft ftate : 
Remember I am built of clay, and muft 
Refolve to my originary dull. Sandys on Job. 
To ORFGINATE, v. a. To bring into exiftence. 
To ORI'GINATE, v.n. To take exiftence.— Iconfider 
the addrefs as originating in the principles of the fermon. 
Barite on the French Revolution. 
ORIGINA'TION, J'. The act or mode of bringing into 
exiftence; firft production.—The tradition of the origina¬ 
tion of mankind feems to be univerfal; but the particular 
methods of that origination excogitated by the heathen, 
were particular. Hale. — Defcartes firft introduced the 
fancy of making a world, and deducing the origination of 
the univerfe from mechanical principles. Kail. —Defcent 
from a primitive.—The Greek word ufed by the apoftles 
to exprefs the church, fignifieth, a calling forth, if we 
look upon the origination. Peat foil. 
ORIGNY', a town of France, in the department of the 
Aifne : eight miles eaft of St. Quentin. 
ORIG'ONE, a mountain of Naples, in Capitanata: 
eighteen mrles north of Manfredonia. 
ORIHUE'LA, called Anriola by the Romans, Orzuella 
by the Goths, Orguclla by the Moors, and Orihuela by 
the Arragonefe and the Spaniards, is a tolerably large 
town of Spain, in the province of Valencia, agreeably 
fituated at the foot of the mountain of the fame name, on 
both banks of the Segura, which runs through it, and 
which, on the confines of a beautiful country, forms the 
continuation of the Huerta of Murcia. This town was 
taken from the Conteftani by the Carthaginians, from 
them by the Romans, arid from thefe by the Goths; it 
was conq'uered by the Moors in 715, and at firft formed 
part of the kingdom of Cordova ; in 1057 it had its own 
king, but foon afterwards returned to the kings of Cor¬ 
dova; by a frefh revolution it became dependent on the 
new kingdom of Murcia, eftablifhed in 1236; it remained 
under the Moors for 550 years. It was taken from them 
in 1264 by James king of Arragon, who peopled it with 
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Chriftians, and in 1537 it received the title of city from 
Alphonfo V. In 1648, it was depopulated by the plague; 
and the overflowing of the Segura in 1651, deftroyed a 
great part of it. This town is narrow ; but, as it winds 
round the foot of the mountain, its extent is confiderable. 
It is tolerably well built; the ftreets are in general airy, 
ftraight, and broad ; and the broadeft of them have pave¬ 
ments on each fide. It has many regular edifices, and 
houfes of good appearance. It has two bridges over the 
Segura, feven gates, and five fquares. It has no foun¬ 
tains, fo that the inhabitants drink the water of the Se¬ 
gura. The population is about 20,000 perfons. 101564, 
pope Leo X. eftablifhed a bifhop’s fee in this place, which 
has continued ever iince ; and it has a cathedral chapter. 
Here are three parifh-churches, nine monafteries, three 
nunneries, an hofpital for the fick, a foundling-hofpital, 
and a tribunal for the cognizance of caufes ariling in the 
diocefe. Befides a number of officers for the civil and 
military adminiftration, it has a garrifon of two fquadrons 
of cavalry, or of dragoons. In this city is an univerfity, 
founded in 1556, for the four learned profefiions ; alfo a 
feminary and two colleges, one of which accommodates 
about 300 young men. A ftnall theatre was eretfted in 
this place by a private gentleman in 1791 ; and, from the 
month of October to the month of April, it is much fre¬ 
quented. At Orihuela they manufadfure thofe curious 
fnuff-boxes, with the roots of the terebinthus, called in 
Spanifh cornicabra, which are fo much admired on account 
of their beautiful (hades, reprefenting landfcapes, See. 
The inhabitants are commended for the fuavity of their 
manners, and for the induftry with which they cultivate 
the adjacent lands. The country about the town is very 
beautiful, and forms p fucceftion of gardens, producing 
abundance and variety of fruits, fuch as oranges and le¬ 
mons, almonds and pomegranates. The fertility of the 
foil has occafioned a proverb, “ Rain or no rain, there is 
corn in Orihuela.” Here are railed filk-worms in great 
number, which furnifh the inhabitants with a newfource 
of wealth. It is twenty-fix miles fouth-weft of Alicant, 
and thirty-one north of Carthagena. Lat. 38. 7. N. Ion. 
1. 5, W. 
ORIHUE'LA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Arragon : eighteen miles north-weft of Aibarracin. 
ORIHVE'SI, a town of Sweden, in Tavaftland: forty 
miles north of Tavafthus. 
ORIJA'VA, a town of Spain, in the province of Gre¬ 
nada : twelve miles north of Motrii. 
ORIL'LAH, a town of Bengal: feven miles weft of 
Ramgur. 
ORILLO'N, f. in fortification, a finall rounding of 
earth faced with a wail. 
ORIMAT'ILA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Tavaftland : forty-five miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Tavafthus. 
O'RING, a lake of Thibet: fixty-three miles in cir¬ 
cumference. Lat. 34. 47. N. Ion. 97.29. E. 
ORIN'GA, afea-port of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon. 
ORINIACOO'RA, a town of Bengal: fifteen mil'es 
north of Nuldingah. 
ORINO'KO. See Oroonoko. 
ORIiVXA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak: 
forty-one miles eaft of Ifpaban. 
O'RIO, a town of Spain, in Guipufcoa, fituated on the 
fea-coaft, at the mouth of a river of the fame name. It 
is furrounded by walls: four miles weft of St. Sebaftian, 
and twenty-five eaft-north-eaft of Bilboa. ^ 
O'RIOL. See Oriel. 
O'RIOLE, J'. See Oriolus. 
ORIO'LUS, /! [from the Lat. aureolas, golden, that 
being the prevailing colour in tnoft of the fpecies.] The 
Oriole ; in ornithology, a genus of birds of the order 
picte, confiding of fifty-five fpecies, befides varieties. 
Their generic characters are--Bill conical, convex, very 
fharp, and ftraight; the upper mandible fomewhat long- 
eft, atid (lightly notched; tongue bifid and fharp; feet 
ambulatory ; bones yellow. 
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