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OU'DENBORG, a town of the Netherlands, in the 
province of Weft Flanders: fix. miles fouth-eaft of 
Oftend. 
OU'DENBOSCH, a town of the Netherlands, in the 
province of North Brabant: ten miles weft of Breda. 
OU'DERKERCH, a town of the Netherlands, in the 
province of South Holland : fix miles fouth of Amfterdam. 
OU'DESCARPEL, a village of Holland, on the Lan- 
gedike. 
OU'DESLUYS, a fluice and village of Holland, at the 
point on the Zipe-canal: eight miles fouth of the Helder. 
OU'DEWATER, i. e. Old Waters, a town of the 
Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, with a 
population of about 1660 perfons. It is fituated on the 
Little IfTel, between Woerden and Schoonhoven, about 
three miles from each, and on the confines of the pro¬ 
vinces of Holland and Utrecht. It obtained the pri¬ 
vileges of a city in the year 1254- from Henry de Vianen 
bifiiop of Utrecht. In the year 1575 it was taken by 
aifault, pillaged, and burned, by the Spaniards, under the 
command of Gilles de Barlamont lord of Hierges, after 
they had been obliged to raife the fiege of Leyden. 
Among the people who were murdered by the Spaniards, 
were the mother, fillers, and brothers, of the celebrated 
James Arminius, who was born herein the year 1560. It 
is twenty miles fouth of Amfterdam, and ten fouth-weft 
of Utrecht. 
OU'DGAH, a town of Bengal: fifty-four miles fouth- 
eaft of Doefa. 
OUDGAS'TEL, a town of the Netherlands: twelve 
miles weft of Breda. 
OUDIGHIR', a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Dowlatabad : five miles north-well of Beder, and no 
north-weft of Hydrabad. 
OU'DIN (Cafimir), a learned French monk, but who 
afterwards embraced the Proteftant religion, was born at 
Mezieres on the Meufe, in the year 1638. He difcovered 
an early inclination for learning; and, having gone 
through his courfe of rhetoric, at the age of eighteen he 
entered among the monks of the Premontre order, at the 
abbey of St. Paul at Verdun. Here he applied to the 
Itudy of philofophy and divinity, and afterwards directed 
his particular attention to ecclefiaftical hillory. From this 
time we find no mention of him before the year 1675, 
when he had entered into holy orders, and was appointed 
incumbent of Epinay in the diocefeof Rouen. In 1677 
he refigned this benefice, and in the following year was 
placed by his fuperiors in the abbey of Bucilly in Cham¬ 
pagne. He was here in the year 1680, when Louis XIV. 
in the courfe of one of his journeys, Hopped to take his 
dinner at the abbey. On this occafion Oudin, in the ab- 
fence of the abbot and prior, was directed to compliment 
the king, and do the honours of the houfe; when hefur- 
prifed his majelly with the proofs which he afforded of 
his abilities and addrefs. A difcovery being thus acci¬ 
dentally made of Oudin’s talents and the bent of his ge¬ 
nius, his general lent him, in the faiiie or during the 
following year, on a vifit to all the abbeys and churches 
belonging to his order, for the purpofe of feleXing from 
their archives fuch documents as might afiill him in his 
enquiries into ecclefiaftical hillory. He firft vifited all the 
monafteries in the Netherlands, whence he brought back 
with him a rich fupply of materials; and in 1682 he made 
the fame refearches in the religious houfes of Lorraine, 
Burgundy, and Alface. In 1683 he was fent to Paris,' 
where he formed connexions with feveral eminent cha- 
raXers in the republic of letters; and in 1688 he pub- 
lilhed a work, by which he acquired great credit, entitled 
“Supplementum de Scriptoribus vel Scriptis ecclefiafticis 
a Bellarmino otnilfis, ad annum 1460, vel ad artem typo- 
graphicam inventum,” 8vo. A revolution afterwards 
taking place in his religious fentiments, in the year 1690 
he withdrew from France and went to Leyden, where he 
renounced the popilh creed, and made a public profelfion 
of the Proteftant religion. Soon after this he was ap- 
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pointed fub-librarian of the univerfity of Leydert, and 
retained that pod till his death in 1717, when in the fe- 
venty-ninth year of his age. He was the author of, 2. 
AXa Beati Lucae Abbatis Cuilfiacenfis, 4to. 3. Vetefum 
aliquot Gallise et Belgii Scriptorum Opufcula facra nun- 
quam edita, 1692, 8vo. 4. Epiftola de Ratione Studiorum 
luorum, 1692, 4to. 5. Trias Dilfertationum criticarum : 
Prima de Codice manufcripto Alexandrino Bodleianse 
Bibliothecae ; Secunda de Quaeftionibus ad Antiochum 
Principem in Scripturam Sacram: Tertia de ColleXaneofeu 
ColleXione Antiquitatum Conftantinopolitarum Anfelmi 
Bandurii, 1717, 8vo. 6. The Premontre Monk unfrocked. 
His principal work, however, was publilhed from his- 
papers after his death, and is entitled, 7. Commen- 
tarius de Scriptoribus Ecclefias Antiquis, illorumque 
Scriptis; adhunc extantibus in celebrioribus Europae 
Bibliothecis, a Bellarmino, Polfevino. Phil. Labbeo, Guil. 
Caveo, El. du Pin, &c. 1722, in three volumes, folio. Saqii 
Onomuft. Lit. pars v. 
OUfDIN (Francis), a learned French Jefuit, was born 
at Vignory in Champagne, in the year 1673. He was 
fent when very young to commence his ftudies at Lan- 
gres ; and made fo rapid a progrefs, that his uncle, John 
Oudin, a worthy and learned canon of the cathedral in 
that city, w’as determined himfelf to undertake his tui-« 
tion. Under his inftrudlions, Francis Oudin, who pof- 
fefted an excellent memory and a lively genius, foon made 
a confiderable progrefs in the fciences and the belles-let¬ 
tres. As foon as he had gone through his courfe of phi¬ 
lofophy, he determined on embracing the ecclefiaftical 
profelfion ; and commenced his noviciate among the Je« 
fuits at Nancy in 1691. In 1707 he took the four vows, 
and was afterwards admitted to holy orders. Having 
fixed his refidence at Dijon, in purfuance of the will of 
his uncle, who had on that condition left him an annu¬ 
ity, he filled the rhetorical chair in the college of that 
city for fifteen years fuccelfively, and then the chair of 
pofitive theology for fifteen years more, with very high 
reputation. He died at Dijon in 1752, at the age of le- 
venty-nine. Father Oudin had diligently ftudied the fa- 
cred fcriptures, the councils, and the fathers. Fie was 
intimately acquainted with the Latin, Greek, Spanilh, 
Portuguefe, Italian, and Englilli, languages ; and was 
profoundly (killed in the knowledge of facred and pro¬ 
fane antiquities, and the fcience of medals. Fie was alfo 
diftinguilhed by his tafte in polite literature, and had a 
wonderful facility in compofing Latin verfes. Many of 
his poems, Odes, Elegies, Hymns, See. are enumerated 
by Moreri, and the greater part of them were inferred in 
a colleXion, entitled “ Poemata didafcalica,” in three 
volumes, 121110. His various profe productions were 
alfo very numerous, confiding of Orations, Dilfertations, 
Eulogies, Lives of different writers, inferted in Father 
Niceron’s Memoires, and other pieces, which are pointed 
out by Moreri, as well as the colleXions in which they 
may be found. He publiflied a Latin Commentary on 
St. Paul’s Epiftle to the Romans, 1743, 121110. ar.d he 
wrote Commentaries on the Pfalms, the Gofpel of St. 
Matthew, and almoft all the Epiftles of St. Paul, which 
are ftill in manufeript. It was his intention to have 
written Commentaries on all the books of Scripture; 
but from this defign he was diverted by the direXion of 
his fuperiors, who employed him on a continuation of 
the “ Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jefu,” which was 
begun by father Ribadeneira, and brought down to the 
year 1573 by fathers Alegambe and Sotwell or South- 
well. On this work many of his laft years were fpent; 
'and he had prepared for the prefs tlfie firft four letters, 
and written more than feven hundred articles for the re¬ 
mainder of the work, before his death. His additions 
are faid to be admirably executed ; but, owing to the ex- 
tinXion of the fociety, and the declining intereft of the 
public in what relates to their literary hiftory, it is not 
probable that they will ever be given to the world. Gen. 
Biog. 
OUDIPOU'R, 
