Green as of old each oliv'd portal smiles

And still the graces build my Grecian piles;

My Gothic spires in ancient glory rise,

O'LLA. O'LIO, or O'GLIO.

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And dare with wonted pride to reach unto the skies. Warton. The Triumph of Isis. The Sp. Olla podrida consisted of various meats and vegetables, boiled, or rather stewed together, and duly seasoned with salt and spice. (See Delpino.) Olla, a pot or the meats, &c. boiled in it, and podrida, rotten; podrecer, from the Lat. Putrescere. Olla or olio, is applied to

A mixture or medley; a hotchpotch.

Not to tax him for want of elegance as a courtier in writing oglio for olla, the Spanish word, it might well be affirm'd that there was.-Milton. Ans. to Eikon Basilike, § 15.

If we consider his person he [Nero] was such a mass of filth and impiety, such an oglio of all ill qualities, that he stands the wonder and the disgrace of mankind. South, vol. v. Ser. 5.

And would you really have my muse
Employ herself in writing news,

Or toss up a poetic olio

Merely to bring in Marshal Broglio.

Lloyd. A Familiar Epistle to

Nor much unlike

Is he whose visage, in the lazy mist
That mantles every feature, hides a brood
Of politic conceits; of whispers, nods,
And hints deep omen'd with unwieldy schemes,
And dark portents of state.

Akenside. Pleasures of Imagination, b. iii.
In black oblivion's kennel, shall be trod
Their execrable names, who high in power,
And deep in guilt, most ominously shine.

OMIT, v. OMITTANCE. OMI'SSION.

OMI'SSIVE.

Young. The Statesman's Creed. Fr. Omettre; It. Omèttere; Sp. Omitir; Lat. Omittere, (ob, and mittere,) to pass by, put or lay aside.

To put or lay aside, to leave off, to leave out, let alone, to forbear, to neglect.

They had vsed no rygour to hym against the law, nor omitted no charitable meane vnto him that came to theire mindes.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 887.

This judgment generall all to trial brings
Both for committed and omitted things.

Stirling. Domes-day. The Seventh Houre.

I maruell why I answer'd not againe,
But that's all one: omittance is no quittance.

Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act iii. sc. 5. The omissions in comparison, are no where many. One or two copies omit the 30th verse of Matt. 5. Yet without detracting any thing from the precept therein contain'd; which is fully expressed by the foregoing similitude. Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. v. c. 1. The first is an untowardnesse of omission, the second of commission. The omissive untowardnesse shall lead the way. Bp. Hall. Ser. to the Lords, Feb. 19, 1629. Our Saviour likewise tells us that men shall not only be omission and neglect of their duty, especially in the works of mercy and charity; for not feeding the hungry and the like, as we see, Matt. xxv. and that for the omission of these, he shall pass that terrible sentence, Depart ye cursed, &c.-Tillotson, vol. ii. Ser. 58.

letter of the Greek alphabet. See the quotations. proceeded against for sins of commission, but for the bare

I am alpha and oo the bigynnyng and the ende seith the Lord God that is and that was, and that is to comynge almygti.-Wielif. Apocalips, c. 1.

I am alpha and omega, the beginninge and the ending, sayth the Lorde Almighty, which is, & which was, and which is to come.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

OMELET. Fr. Omelette, or Aumelette. Aumelette d'œufs, a pancake made of eggs, (Cotgrave.) Menage and Duchat write very elaborately upon this word, and produce a variety of etymologies; the former, among others, that of Le Vayer, Eus mesles, q. d. a medley or mixture of eggs. Cotgrave also writes Euf-molette.

Clary, (Horminum) when tender not to be rejected, and in omlets made up with cream, fried in sweet butter, and are eaten with sugar, juice of orange or lemon.

Vp to her turret: then she shooke; her worke fel from her hand,

And vp she started, clad her maides; she nedes must understand

That ominous outcry.-Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xxii.

The ominous raven often he doth hear,

Whose croaking him of following horrour tells,

Begetting strange imaginary fear,

With heavy echoes, like to passing bells.

Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. v.

To take no pleasure, God knows, to ominate ill to my dear nation, and dearer mother the Church of England.

Seasonable Sermons, (1644,) p. 23. The falling of salt is an authentick presagement of ill luck, nor can every temper contemn it; from whence notwithstanding nothing can be naturally feared: nor was the same VOL. II.

OMNI-CORPOREAL. Lat. Omnis, all or every, and corporalis, from corpus, body. (See CORPORATE.) See the quotation.

He is both incorporeal and omnicorporeal, for there is nothing of any body, which he is not. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 347. OMNI-FA'RIOUS. Lat. Omnifarium, omni, and fari, quod omnibus modis fari possis, et generaliter omnibus modis, (Martinius.)

Of all modes or manners, sorts, or kinds.

And he supposed this [an ordering and disposing mind that was the cause of all things] to be that which brought the confused chaos of omnifarious atoms into that orderly compages of the world that now is

Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 26.

But if thou 'rt indefatigably bent
To toil, and omnifarious drinks would'st brew;
Besides the orchat, every hedge and bush
Affords assistance.

J. Philips. Cider, b. ii. OMNIFIC. Who makes or creates (facit) all things (omnia).

Silence, ye troubl'd' waves, and thou Deep, peace,
Said then th' omnific Word, your discord end.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vii.

O bland creatress of the gods above,
And men beneath, from whose omnific love
The woods are clad with verdure, rivers flow,
And animals with life's warm current glow.

Lewis. Statius. Thebaid, b. viii.

Which [sympathetical] tye catches and lets goe, for the direction and transmission of things to their proper places in the several parts of the world for the good of the whole, according to that essential law which is the form and being of this spirit of Nature, the last ideal or omniform efflux from God.-More. Philosophical Writings, Pref. General. She may have each thing view'd By her own centrall self-vitality Which is her self-essensiall omniformity.

Id. On the Soul, pt. iii. c. 2. 8. 34 The living fire, the living omniform seminary of the world, and other expressions of the like nature occurring in the ancient and Platonic philosophy, how can they be understood exclusive of light or elemental fire.-Berkeley. Siris, § 281.

OMNI-PERCIPIENT. OMNIPERCIPIENCE. OMNIPERCIPIENCY.

Lat. Omnis, and percipiens, pres. part. of percipere, to take thoroughly, (sc.) by the senses, by the mind. Sce PERCEIVE.

Perceiving all things, eyery thing.

An omnipercipient omnipresence, which does near and see whatever is said or transacted in the world,-is a certain excellency in God.-More. Antidote against Idolatry, c. 2.

main ground of that religious worship due to God, which we This omnipresence, or omnipercipience terrestrial, is one call invocation.-Id. Ib.

All the modes or ways the communication of this omnipercipiency to saints or angels are either very incredible, if not impossible, or extremely ridiculous as to any excuse for their invocation.-Id. Ib.

Able, powerful to do all things ;-almighty.

As helpe me veray God omnipotent

Tho I right now shuld make my testament.

Chaucer. Prol. to the Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6004.

I would not let to denye an hole heape of those reasons in matters of the sacramétes, which hage all vpon Goddes wyll and pleasure and hys omnipotent power.

Sir T. More. Workes, p. 386.

How fond is that man in his fantasie,
Who thinks that Joue, the maker of vs al,
And he that tempers all in heauen on high,
The sunne, the mone, the starres celestiall,
So that no leafe without his leaue can fall,
Hath not in him omnipotence also
To guide and governe all things here below?

Gascoigne. Jocasta, Act iii. Ch Harps. Why, this is nothing els but to exclude the omnipotencie of God, and all kinde of miracle in the sacrament. Brad. I do not exclude his omnipotencie, but you do it

rather-Fox. Martyrs, p. 1466. Talk between Bradford and Harpsfield, an. 1555.

The presence of whyche humanite, when it is denyed, then is there no text to proue the presence of Christes diuinitie specially, that is to say otherwise then it is by his omnipotencye presente euery where.

Bp. Gardiner Explication. Of the Presence, fol. 26. He is also omnipotent, as he is immense, for having, as he is immense, the power of infinite being; he must needs likewise have the power of all finite being which is, to be omnipotent.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. i. c. 1.

The spirits beneath, whom I seduc'd, With other promises and other vaunts, Than to submit, boasting I could subdue Th' Omnipotent. Millon. Paradise Lost, b. iv. May not the Lord (omnipotently great) A quality (when as he list) impart, To all the guests of Pluto's ugly seat: That (freez'd in fire) they burne yet not decay, Do pine, not dye, as monsters every way?

Stirling. Domes-day. Eleventh Houre. But God uses not to proceed according to the rule of an absolute omnipotency, but according to the oeconomie of his most holy, most wise, most just decrees.

Bp. Hall. Serm. at Westminster, April 5, 1628. The particulars not included in the true notion even of omnipotence itself, I have shown, are, whatever things are contradictory absolutely in their own nature; whatever things are naturally evil and imply weakness or imperfection in the Being itself to whom the power of doing them is ascribed; and whatever things are morally evil and imply injustice or unrighteousness towards others.

OMNI-PRESENT.

OMNIPRESENTIAL.

OMNIPRESENCE.

OMNIPRE'SENCY.

Clarke, vol. i. Ser. 9. Lat. Omnis, and præsens, being before, (præ, before, and ens, being.)

Being every where

before us; present every where or in every place,

8 M

ON

-For he also went

Invisible, yet staid, (such priviledge
Hath Omnipresence) and the work ordain'd,

Author and end of all things.-Milton. Par. Lost, b. vii.

For we'el suppose in this spirit the center of life to be Indivisible, and yet to diffuse it self by a kind of circumscrib'd omnipresency, as the point of light is discernible in every point of the luminous sphere.

More. Antidote against Atheism, App. c. 3.

From the consideration of God's being omnipresent, it follows that his power (as well as knowledge) is unlimited; to be every where relied on by good men, and to be feared by bad.-Clarke, vol. i. Ser. 8.

This attribute of omnipresence, as 'tis constantly ascribed to God in scripture, so is it in reason likewise so plain and obvious, that the generality of moral writers even among the heathens themselves, have not been wanting to assert it clearly and without hesitation.-Id. Ib.

Men cannot persuade themselves that omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, should ever be wrapt in swadling clothes, and abased to the homely usages of a stable and a manger.-South, vol. iii. Ser. 8.

But his omnipresential filling all things being an inseparable property of his divine nature, always agreed to him, and was not then at length to be conferred on him.

Id. vol. vii. Ser. 1.

The same being, moreover, which is immence; cannot but be omniscient.-Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. i. c. 1.

9. To shew his omniscience, he is said, John ii. 24. to know all men. An attribute given in scripture to God only. Id. Ib. b. v. c. 4. And so again at the last day, when our offences shall be drawn into accompt, the subtilty of that inquisitor shall not present unto God a bundle of calumnies or confutable accusations; but will discreetly offer up his omnisciency, a true and undeniable list of our transgressions.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 2.

I dare not pronounce him omniscious, that being an attribute individually proper to the Godhead, and incommunicable to any created substance.-Hakewill. On Providence.

Can atoms be omniscient, to discern

(What human wisdom strives, but strives in vain to learn)
What mode mysterious paints the purpling rose,
What melts the current when Mæander flows.
Brooke. Universal Beauty, b. ii.
Thee great omniscient, omnispective Power!
Thee first and last-thee only I adore !

OMNI-VOROUS.

thing.

Boyse. The only Wish. Devouring all and every

He has not observed on the nature of vanity, who does not know that it is omnivorous; that it has no choice in its food.-Burke. Let. to a Member of the National Assembly.

ON.

ON

I haue driuen hym onwarde one steppe down. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 409. In the which fight, whilst health by little and little getteth the upper hand, that same proceeding, and (as we would say) that onwardness to the wonted strength, ministereth that pleasure whereby we be so refreshed. Id. Utopia, b. ii. c. 8. Yet is she [fayth] not idle, but secretly worketh a vehement onwardnes to all godlynes.-Udal. Gal. c. 5.

Neither my place, nor ought I heard of businesse
Hath rais'd me from my bed; nor doth the generall care
Take hold on me.-Shakespeare. Othello, Act i. sc. 3.
Rom. What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse?
Or shall we on without apoligie?
Id. Romeo & Juliet, Acti. sc. 4.
For I am prouerb'd with a grandsier phrase,
Id. Ib.
Ile be a candle-holder and look on.

On him baptiz'd
Heaven open'd, and in likeness of a dove
The Spirit descended, while the Father's voice
From heav'n pronounc'd him his beloved Son.
Milton. Paradise Regained, b. i.

Then toldst her doubting how these things could be
To her a virgin, that on her should come
The Holy Ghost, and the power of the Highest
Id. Ib.
O're-shadow her.

Therefore while I
Descend through darkness, on your rode with ease
To my officiate powers, them to acquaint
With these successes, and with them rejoyce,
You two this way, among these numerous orbs
All yours, right down to Paradise descend.
Id. Paradise Lost, b. x.
Sam. A little onward lend thy guyding hand
To these dark steps, a little further on;
For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade.

Id. Samson Agonistes. When an elephant was gone a pretty way upon one of these, the posts upholding the frame were cut asunder, and thereby causing him to sink down into the next bridge, whence he was convey'd in like manner to the third, and onward still to the very bottom.

Ralegh. Hist. of the World, b. v. c. 6. s. 7.

He [Abraham] had now a right to it, (jus ad rem,) but would stay God's leisure for the possession of it, four hundred years: onwards he takes his livery and seisen and will purchase with money that which the great ower of heaven gave him freely.

Bp. Hall. Sermon preached at Exester. Gen. xxiii. 19, 20.
But gather'd by th' on-marching enemy,
Returned were like clouds of steel.

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. viii.
Though to pull back th' on-running state of things,
(Gath'ring corruption as it gathers days,)
Unto the form of their first orderings

Is the best means that dissolution stays.

ONE, adj.
O'NED.
ONE-HEAD.
O'NEMENT.

O'NENESS.

O'NELY, adj. O'NLY, ad.

O'NELINESS.

ONCE.

Gower. Con. A. b. v.

One, Goth. Ains; A. S. An, ane ; Dut. Een; Ger. Eins; Sw. En; Fr. Un; It. Uno; Sp. Uno; Lat. Unus; Gr. Eis, évos.

Only, i.e. one-like, or as anciently written—onliche; like one, in the state or condition of one; of one being all; this one and no other. All hym one, (Gower)

:

And sayde for this thynge, shall a man leue father and mother and cleue vnto his wyfe, and they twaine shall be one flesche.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Deeth schal no more haue lordschippe on him. for that he was deed to synne he was deed oonys, but that he lyue he lyueth to God.-Wiclif. Romaynes, c. 6.

Death hath no more power ouer him. For as touchynge And as yt he dyed, he dyed concernynge synne, once. touchynge that he liueth, he liueth vnto God.

Bible, 1551. Ib. Nameli in that place in the firste epistle of Ioon, where we reden of the oonhede of the Tryntye, where we finden that ther hath be great errour of untrewe translatoris fro the treuthe of the feith.-Wiclif. James. Prologue.

Lord I am not worthi that you entre under my roof, but oonly say thou bi word: and my child schal be heelid. Id. Matthew, c. 8.

Sir I am not worthy that thou shouldest come vnder my rofe, but speake the word onely and my seruaunte shal be healed-Bille, 1551. Ib.

Who lived ever in swiche delite o day,
That him ne meved other conscience,
Or ire, or talent, or som kin affray
Envie, or pride, or passion, or offence.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5555.
His brede, his ale, was alway after on;

A better envyned man was no wher non-Id. Ib. v. 343.
I make a vow by Goddes dignes bones.
Herkeneth, felawes, we three ben al ones.

Id. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,630.

His knave was a strong carl for the nones,
And by the haspe he haf it at ones;
Into the flore the dore fell anon.

Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3470.

But me was told, not longe time agon is
That sithen Christ ne went never but onis
To wedding, in the Cane of Galilee,
That by that ilke ensample taught he me
That I ne shulde wedded be but ones.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5597. This qualitie after clerkes determission, is founden in every creature, be it neuer so single of onhed. Id. The Testament of Loue, b. l. But yet ne folweth it not therof, that every persone to whom men don vilanie, shuld take of it vengeannce: for that apperteineth and longeth all only to the juges. Id. The Tale of Melibeus.

For nowe a daie is many one
Whiche speaketh of Peter and John,

And thynketh Judas in his herte.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.
The kynge, which made mochel mone,
Tho stoode, as who saith, all kym one
Without wyfe.

Virginitee

Whiche was tho a great dignitee, Nought oneliche of the woman tho, But of the chaste men also

It was commended ouer all.

My father nay, Christ me forbede,

I speake onliche of the dede,

Of whiche I was neuer culpable,
Without cause reasonable.

Id. Ib. b vili.

Id. Ib. b. v.

Id. Ib. b. iii.

Which of them so euer ye had considered in him, ye de haue thought that he had taken that one for his onely sindie.- Sir T. More. Workes, p. 5.

Say first what cause

Mov'd our grand parents in that happy state,
Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off
From their Creator, and transgress his will
For one restraint, lords of the world besides.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i.

Ye witlesse gallants I beshrew your hearts
That set such discord 'twixt agreeing parts,
Which never can be set at onement more,
Until the maws wide mouth be stopt with store.

Bp. Hall, b. iii. Sat. 7. Incorporeal substance is in some sort extended; and consequently a soul or spirit is capable of no other unity or onenesse than what consists in indiscerpibility, and in vital coactivity and sympathy of parts.

More. Philosophical Writings. General Pref. p. 15. We grant, indeed, that there can be no instance of the like unity and oneness found in any created beings.

Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 559. What then is this union of the members of Christ here on earth, but a spiritual oneness arising from an happy conspiration of their thoughts and affections.

Bp. Hall. Christ Mystical, s. 20

From the idea of God thus declared, it evidently appears that there can be but one such being, and that Moves, unity, oneliness or singularity is essential to it; forasmuch as there cannot possibly be more than one Supreme, more than one omnipotent or infinitely Powerful Being, and more than one cause of all things besides itself.

Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 207. Which yet was no impertinent digression neither, it removing the grand objection against the naturality of the idea of God, as including oneliness in it, as also preparing a way for that defence of Christianity, designed by us against atheists.-Id. Ib. p. 633.

The simplicity and absolute oneness of a living agent cannot indeed, from the nature of the thing, be properly proved by experimental observations.

Butler. Analogy of Religion, pt. i. c. 1.

We saw their stern distorted looks from far,
And one-eyed glance, that vainly threaten'd war.

After having surveyed very attentively all kinds of ranks and professions, I do not find in any quarter of the town an oneirocritick, or in plain English, an interpreter of dreams. Spectator, No. 505.

The onirocritics borrowed their art of deciphering dreams from hieroglyphic symbols: but hieroglyphic symbols were the misterious vehicle of the civil science and of the theology of the Egyptians. Now onirocritic or the art of interpreting dreams was practised in the time of Joseph. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. vi. s. 6.

O'NEROUS. Fr. Onéreux; Lat. Onerosus, from onus, a load or burthen; which Lennep derives from ovw, tollo, et per metonymiam, sublatum gero. Ovw, or ovnu, is usually rendered prosum, utilitatem fero, or affero.

Burthensome, heavy, weighty.

And for he nil be importune
Unto no wight, ne onerous,
Nor of goodnesse covetous:

Therefore he spareth, it may well been,

His poore estate for to susteen.-Chaucer. R. of the R. I was afraid for the weake hearers of the scripture through the onerous and importable transgression of their pastor, should shew themselues disobedient.

Fox. Martyrs, p. 124. Let. of Hulderike to Pope Nicholas I. O'NION. Fr. Oignon; Lat. Unio,-a bulbi unitate nomen habens, taking its name from the oneness of the bulb, (Martinius.)

His aduersaries thought that he shulde neuer haue had such a crosse laide on him oneless then he had also outwardly and openlye liued in wickednesse. Bible, 1551. Job, c. 9. Note. They thynke that onlesse one man's life be payde for the lyfe of another, the wrath of Gods immortall cannot be appeased.-Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 157.

O'NOMANCY. Į Fr. Onomantie; Gr. Ovoua, ONOMA'NTICAL. a name, and μavtela, μAVтEVcoal, to foretell, to predict.

Prediction, or divination by names.

Such like curious obseruations bred the superstitious kinde of diuination called onomantia, condemned by the last generall counsell, by which the Pythagoreans judged the euen number of vowels in names to signifie imperfections in the left sides of men, and the odde number in the right.

Camden. Remaines. Names.

By this Theodatus, king of the Gothes, when he was curious to know the success of the warres against the Romans, an Onomanticall or name-wisard Jew willed him to shut vp a number of swine in little hogsties.-Id. Ib.

O'NSET, i. e. a set on, assault, attack; also, something added or set on, (Brocket;) who says, "a dwelling-house and out-buildings" are so called-perhaps the out-buildings to a dwelling

This total oneness of its threefold bliss
Life, light, and joy, of Nature's vast abyss
No tongue so well can utter, but the mind,
That seeks for somewhat to object, may find.

Byrom. On Trinity Sunday.
Severely humbled to her one-horse chair
And the low pastimes of a country Fair.

Jenyns. The Modern Fine Lady, (1750.) ONEIROCRITICK, n. Fr. Onirocrite, oniONEIROCRITICAL. rocritique; Lat. of the Lower Ages, Onirocrites; Gr. OvELрo-KρITIKOS; Ove pos, a dream, and KρITIKоs, one who can discern, understand, interpret.

"An interpreter of dreams," as Addison explains.

Beside Hippocrates hath spoke so little and the oneiroeriticall masters have left such frigid interpretations from plants, that there is little encouragement to dream of paradise itself.-Brown. Cyrus' Garden, c. 5.

Then called a council, which was best,

By siege or onslaught, to invest
The enemy and 'twas agreed

By storm and onslaught to proceed.—Hudibras, pt. 1. c. 8.

ONTO'LOGY. Gr. Ovra, accusative plural of wv, being, and Aoyos, discourse. See the quotation from Watts.

Ontology is a discourse of being in general, and the various and most universal modes or affections, as well as the several kinds or divisions of it. The word being here includes not only whatsoever actually is, but whatsoever can be.-Watts. On Ontology, c. 1.

When these two sciences had thus been set in opposition to one another, the comparison between them naturally gave birth to a third, to what was called ontology, or the science which treated of the qualities and attributes which were common to both the subjects of the other two sciences.

O'NYX.

Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. v. c. 1. Fr. Onyche; It. Onice; Sp. Onyche; Lat. Onyx; Gr. Ovv, unguis; a corneo unguis candore. "Sudines saith, that the precious stone onyx hath a white in it resembling the naile of a man's finger," (Pliny, b. xxxvii. c. 6.)

But the true onyx indeed hath verie many veins, and those of sundrie colours; garnished also it is with circles as white as milke and albeit the colours of the veins be inexplicable as a man casteth his eye upon them severally, yet meeting as it were all in one, they make a good consort and yeeld a lustre most pleasing to the sight.

OOZE, v. Ooze, n. O'ozy.

Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvii. c. 6. The ancient Britons (says Lye, from Baxter) by asc, esc, isc, osc, and usc, (changed into ax, ex, ox, or ouse, and ur,) meant water, generally; and the Ger. Asche, aqua, præcipuè fluens, is by Wachter called Vox Celtica. But Lye also tells us that the Ouse, indiscriminately written Ise, Ose, Use, is in A. S. not only called Usa, but Wusa; which seems to lead directly to the A. S. Wes-an, to wet, wascTanner's ouse is the bark wetted or washed, steeped or soaked in an, to wash, and was, water. water. Ooze, then, is

(Earth) wetted or washed; (lutum ;) mud or mire; also water or other moisture slowly, sluggishly, or gently issuing forth, rising, or springing. And to ooze,

To issue forth, rise, spring, flow-slowly, sluggishly, or gently.

I scapt the deth, I graunt, and brake the bands,
And lurked in a marrice all the nyght
Among the ooze, while they did set their sailes
If it so be that they indede so dyd.

Surrey. Virgile. Æneis, b. ii.
Where these riuers mette, the waues rose like surges of
the sea being full of mudde, & oose.
Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 263.
Hurls up the slimy ooze and makes the scaly brood
Leap madding to the land affrighted from the flood.

Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 7. Strange death! for when the thirsty fire had drunk Their vital blood, and the dry nerves had shrunk ; When the contracted limbs were cramp'd, even then A waterish humour swell'd and ooz'd again.

Dryden. Virgil. Georgies, b. iii.

And fam'd Astypalea's fens
Breed shoals of fish in oozy dens.

King. Art of Love, pt. vi.
He the deadly wound
Ere long discover'd; for it still ooz'd crimson,
Like a rose springing midst a bed of lillies!

O'PAL. O'PALINE.

logy.

Brooke. Conrade. A Fragment. Fr. Opale; It. and Sp. Opalo; Lat. Opalus. Of unknown etymo

They gave an onset sodeinly vppon Amyntas, that was Da-
rius lieutenant.-Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 213.
In comes the king, his brother's life to save,
And to this brave duke a fresh onset gave.
Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt. mother of them.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvii. c. 6.
Lam. Good man of war,
Hands off, if you take me it must be by siege
Not by an onset.

The stones called opales differ little or nothing otherwhiles from beryls; and yet the same sometime are nothing at all like them: neither is there a gem that they will give place unto, unlesse it be the emeraud: India land is the onely

Beaum. & Fletch. Honest Man's Fortune, Act iii. sc. 2.
There is surely no greater wisdome, than well to time the
beginnings and onsets of things.-Bacon. Ess. On Delayes.
As when in Indian forests, wild,
Barbaric armies suddenly retire
After some furious onset.-Grainger. Sugar Cane, b. ii.
ONSLAUGHT. A. S. On, sle-an, on-slag-an,
to dash or strike against, (to slay.) See AN-

SLAUGHT.

An attack, an assault:-(a slaughterous assault.) |

For sight no obstacle found here, nor shade
But all sun-shine as when his beams at noon
Culminate from th' Equator, as they now
Shoot upward still direct, whence no way round
Shadow from body opaque can fall.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii.

All plants break through into open day
Rend the thick curtain of cold cloying night,
The earth's opakeness enemie to light,
And crown themselves in signe of victorie

With shining leaves, and goodly blossomes bright.
More. On the Soul, pt. ii. b. i. c. 2. s. 31.

Abandoning that gloomy and base opacity of conceit, wherewith our earthly minds are commonly wont to be overclouded.-Bp. Hall. Ser. 1 John, i. 5.

Every sudden and plentiful eruption of water out of the hidden caverns of the earth, hath its altars erected to it; and some pools have been made sacred for their immense profundity and opacity.-Cudworth. Intel. System, p. 510.

Meanwhile upon the firm opacous globe

Of this round world, whose first convex divides
The luminous inferior orbs enclos'd

From chaos and th' inroad of darkness old,
Satan alighted walks.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii.

As if at this day in the sunshine there should be produced an opacous body, together with it the shadow would be produced.-Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 120.

Mysteries, which (without these coverings) even the opacousness of the place were not obscure enough to conceal. Evelyn, b. iv. s. 8. The same corpuscles upon the unstopping of the glass did opacate that part of the air they moved in.-Boyle.

The opacousness of the sclerotis hinders the pictures that outward objects (unless they be lucid ones) niake within the eye to be clearly discerned.-Id. Works, vol. ii. p. 52.

Through this opaque of nature and of soul

This double night, transmit one pitying ray,

To lighten, and to cheer.-Young. Complaint, Night 1.

No external instruction, no interiour discourse could penetrate those opacities of ignorance, and dissipate those thick mists of prejudice, wherein nature and custom do involve us.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 45.

OPE, or
O'PEN, v. & adj.
ᎤᏢᎬᏙᎬᎡ.

O'PENING, n.

O'PENLY.

O'PENNESS.

A. S. Openian; Dut. Openen; Ger. Offnen; Sw. Opna. The A. S. Yppan, aperire, pandere, (whence ge-yppan, to gape,) seems to See be the common origin. CHAPS.

GAPE; also CHAP, To sever or separate, (sc.) that which is close; to give entrance or passage; to unclose, to disclose; to uncover, to discover; to manifest, to explain; to expose, to begin or commence the exposition. Open, the adjective, is thus,

Plain, evident, unclosed, uncovered, unprotected; and (met.)—

Undisguised, sincere, unreserved, frank. Open weather, clear from clouds, not overcast, not condensed or constricted.

Open-headed, (in Chaucer ;)-for nought but that he saw her with her head uncovered, &c.

For the comon folk it wan wod onen & forest.

R. Brunne, p. 110. To openen and undo the hye gates of hevene. Piers Ploukman, p. 124. For if a trumpe ghyue an uncerteyn soun, who schal make himself redi to bateil? so but ghe ghyue an opun word bi tunge, how schal that that is seid be knowun. Wiclif. 1 Corynth. c. 14. And aftir that hise britheren were gon vp than he gade up to the feeste day, not openly, but as in priuyte. Id. Jon, c. 7. But as soone as hys brethren were gon vp, the went he also vp to ye feast: not openly but as it were priuely. Bible, 1551. Ib. He that openeth to me, shal have foryevenesse of his sinnes, and I wol enter into him by my grace. Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

He on a day in open audience
Ful boistously hath said hire this sentence.

Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8666.

With swifter spleene then powder can enforce
The mouth of passage shall we fling wide ope,
And give you entrance.-Shakes. King John, Act ii. sc. 2.
Ant. Go fetch me something, Ile break ope the gate.
Id. Comedy of Errors, Act iii. sc. 1.

Yet still he fills the faithful souldier's ears
With stories of his weakness, of his life,
That he dare not venture to appear in open,
And shew his warlike face among the souldiers.
Beaum. & Fletch. The Prophetess, Act i. sc. 1.
True opener of mine eyes, prime angel blest,
Much better seems this vision, and more hope
Of peaceful dayes portends, then those two past.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xi.

There is nothing to be discommended in this riuer, [Severn,] but the openness thereof in manie places to the weather, whereby sundry perils oft ouertake such as fish or saile in small vessels.

Holinshed. The Description of Britaine, c. 13.

My constancy I to the planets give; My truth to them who at the Court do live: Mine ingenuity and openness To Jesuits. Donne. The Will. Certainly the ablest men that ever were, have had all an opennesse and franknesse of dealing.

Bacon. Ess. Of Simulation. Thou art his friend, (The confidence he has in thee confirms it,) And therefore I'le be open breasted to thee.

Beaum. & Fletch. Custom of the Country, Act v. sc. 1.
Nor doth 't affect this fond gentility,
Whereon the fool world open-mouthed gazes,
Thinking itself of great ability.-Drayton. Pastorals, Ecl 5.

Not so, when, diadem'd with rays divine,
Touch'd with the flame that breaks from Virtue's shrine,
Her Priestess Muse forbids the good to die,
And opes the Temple of Eternity.

Pope. Epilogue to the Satires, Dial. 2. With openings fast the gaping earth gave way, And in her inmost womb receiv'd the day. Rowe. Lucan, b. i. It [Religion] places him under a perpetual awe of that justice that sees in secret, and rewards openly. South, vol. viii. Ser. 1. This shews how the mind of man is naturally to be prevailed upon; and that in the proposal of so great a thing to it as a new Religion, the natural openness and meeting fervours of men's first acceptance, are by all means to be secured and possessed.-Id. vol. vii. Ser 2.

When I

Oped his young eye to bear the blaze of greatness;
Shew'd him, where empire tower'd, and bade him strike
The noble quarry.
Gray. Agrippina, Act i. sc. 1.

Large was the cave, but scarce at noon of day,
The winding mouth receiv'd a feeble ray;
Yet from an opening to the right appear'd
A beam of sunshine that the dwelling cheer'd.
Hoole. Orlando Furioso, b. xiii.
By their frequent change of company, they [soldiers] ac-
quire good breeding and an openness of behaviour.
Hume, pt. i. Ess. 21.
O'PERA. For the application of this word,
borrowed from the Italian, see the quotations from
Dryden and Burney.

An opera is a poetical tale or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental musick, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing-Dryden. Albion & Albanius, Pref.

O'PERATE, v.
OPERA'TION.
O'PERATIVE, adj.
O'PERATIVE, n.
O'PERATIVELY.
O'PERATOR.
O'PERABLE.

O'PERANT.
O'PERANCE.
O'PEROSE.
O'PEROSENESS.
OPERO'SITY.
O'PIFICER.

common use.

Fr. Opérer; It. Operàre; Sp. Operar; Lat. Operare; "ab ew, qua notat operor, venit Latinum opus," (Vossius.) And see Lennep, in ν. Όπλων.

To work or act upon; to act, to perform, to effect. Operative, adj.-able to work or labour; effective.

Operative, n. (applied to labourers, or rather labouring mechanics) is now in

Operose,-laborious; toilsome, troublesome.

Here may ye see wel, how that genterie
Is not annexed to possession,

Seth folk ne don hir operation

Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his kind.

Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6730.

And of this constellacion

The very operacion

Auaileth, if a man therein

The purpose of his worke begin.-Gower. Con. A. b. vii. By virtue of both these acts of common Divine providence all things are enabled to act and operate according to the laws of their being, without the necessity of any new individual concurrent act of special providence producing, directing, or determining their several operations.

Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 41.

And therefore also they judge of humane actions by the event; for being uncapable of operable circumstances, or rightly to judge the prudentiality of affairs, they onely gaze upon the visible success, and thereafter condemn or cry up the whole progression.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, p. 9. Earth yeeld me rootes,

Who seekes for better of thee, sawce his pallate
With thy most operant poyson.

Shakespeare. Timon of Athens, Act iv. sc. 3.
King. Faith I must leaue thee loue, and shortly too:
My operant powers their functions leaue to do.
Id. Hamlet, Act Iii. sc. 2.

Lov'd for we did, and like the elements
That knew not what nor why, yet do effect
Rare issues by their operance.

Beaum. & Fletch. Two Noble Kinsmen, Act i. sc. 3.

In architecture, as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation.-Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 6.

His word out of himself proceeding, being most perfect and generative and operative, falling upon fruitful nature, made it also fruitful and producing.

Ralegh. Hist. of the World, b. ii. c. 2. s. 6. Thus I thought good to signify to your lordship, both that your lordship may perceive how effectual and operative your lordship's last dealing with her Majesty was. Bacon. To the Lord Keeper, 28th Sept. 1594.

How the plastick nature is in general to be conceiv'd, Aristotle instructs us in these words. If the naupegical art, that is the art of the shipwright, were in the timber itself, operatively and effectually, it would there act just as nature doth.-Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 155.

Doubtless upon such and the like occurrences many chymical and other accidental discoveries have been made, besides and beyond and without the intention of the operator. Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 154. Nevertheless we acknowledge, that God and nature do things every where in the most frugal and compendious way and with the least operoseness. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 672.

So as there is a kind of operosity in sin in regard whereof sinners are styled the workers of iniquity. (Luke xiii. 27.) Bp. Hall. Select Thoughts, 45. Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent.

Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. I. The operative strength of a thing may continue the same, when the quality that should direct the operation is changed: as a man may have as strong an arm, and as sharp a sword to fight with in a bad cause as in a good.

South, vol vi. Ser. 1.

ΟΡΙ

Love is of too substantial a nature to be made up of mere negatives, and withall too operative to terminate in bare desires.-South, vol. iii. Ser. 1.

This is the philosophy of the popish operators in all their religious performances.-Id. vol. x. Ser. 1.

Where as Aristotle's nature is no fortuitous principle, but such as doth nothing in vain, but all for ends, and in every thing pursues the best; and therefore can be no other than a subordinate instrument of the divine wisdom, and the manuary opificer or executioner of it.

Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 54.

Consider the infinite distance betwixt the poor mortal artist, and the Almighty opificer; the few wheels and motions of a watch, and the innumerable springs and organs in the bodies of brutes.--Bentley, Ser. 2.

Nature and grace must operate uniformly; even as gravitation operates uniformly upon matter: instinct upon brutes; and those secret powers upon men by which the blood (rculates, the pulse beats, the breath comes and goes, and other functions are continually performed in us without our knowledge and endeavour.-Jortin, Diss. 1.

He [Streater] died in 1680, at the age of 56, not long after being cut for the stone, though Charles II. had so much kindness for him as to send for a surgeon from Paris to perform the operation.

Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. c. 1.

All these operose proceedings were adopted by one of the most decided tyrants in the rolls of history. Burke. On the French Revolution.

Fr. Opiate, opion; It. Oppière, oppio; Sp. Opiato, opio; Lat. Opium, opion; Gr. Oriov,

from oros, succus, juice.
See the quotation from Pliny.

For he had yeven drinke his gayler so

Of a clarre, made of certain wine,

With narcotikes and opie of Thebes fine,
That all the night though that men wold him shake,
The gailer slept, he mighte not awake.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1474.

And for the particular ingredients of those magical oyntments, it is like they are opiate, and soporiferous. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 903.

All their shape Spangl'd with eyes more numerous then those Of Argus, and more wakeful then to drouze, Charm'd with Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reed Of Hermes, or his opiate rod.-Millon. Par. Lost, b. xi. It appeareth also in the gangrene, or mortification of flesh, either by opiates, or intense colds.

Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 333.

The juice of poppie commonly runneth out in great abundance, and gathereth into a thicknesse: which afterward is stamped, and reduced into little trosches, and dried in the shade. Which juice thus drawne and thus prepared, hath power not onely to provoke sleepe. but if it be taken in any great quantitie, to make men die in their sleepe and this our physicians call opion [opium].

Holland. Plinie, b. xx. c. 18.

What a strange bewitchery is there in flattery? How, like a spiritual opium, does it intoxicate and abuse the unstanding, even sometimes of men wise and judicious? South, vol. viii. Ser. 7.

A pillow, which, like opiates ill-prepared,
Intoxicates, but not composes; fills
The visionary mind with gay chimeras,
All the wild trash of sleep without the rest.

Young. The Complaint, Night 8.

But not the shade with kindly opiate bless'd,
That lull'd the remnant of the world to rest,
Nor toil persuasive of profound repose,
Through Godfrey's camp could give an eye to close.
Brooke. Jerusalem Delivered, b. ii.

OPINE, v. OPINABLE. OPINIATE, v. OPINATIVE. OPINATIVELY. OPINIATIVENESS. OPINA'TOR. OPINIA'TOR.

ΟΡΙ

Fr. Opiner, opiniastre, opiniastreté, opinion; It. Opinàre, opinione; Sp. Opinar, opinion; Lat. Opinari, opinio. Of unknown etymology. Vossius says from opus, ut reor a re; cogito ab ago sive coagito. Sane hæc omnia mentis opus significant; all signify the work or operation of the mind. Or, he adds, from πινν-ειν, that is, φρον. E, sapere, whence vois, sapientia, intelligentia. In common usage, to opine is,

OPI'NER. OPI'NING, n. OPINIA'STRE. OPINIA'TRE. OPINIA'STROUS. OPINIATRY. OPINIA TRETY. OPINION, n. OPINION, v. OPINIONATE. To think; to think or OPINIONATED. deem probable, or likely to OPINIONATELY. be or to happen. OPINIONATIVE. Opinion, the n. OPINIONATIVELY. the quotations from Locke OPINIONIST. and Belsham. And it is further sometimes used as equivalent to-sentence, censure, (generally,) doom, or judgment. Opinionate, holding, maintaining, holding fast or adhering to opinion or conceit; firm, obstinate, or pertinacious in opinion or conceit; conceited, head-strong, self-willed. And,Opinatre, or opiniastre, adj. from the French, is used to the same effect.

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OPP

That a mare will sooner drown than a horse, though commonly opinion'd, is not I fear experienced: nor is the same observed in the drowning of whelps and kitlins.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 6.

Lon. He is strong opinion'd that the wench he lov'd Remains close prisoner by the King's command.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Noble Gentleman, Act i. sc. 1. Are you so simple as not to discern between the choler of a few opiniate men, and the consequence of their opinions. Bp. Bedell. To Mr. Waddesworth, p. 325. Self-conceited people never agree well together: they are wilfull in their brawls, and reason cannot reconcile them. Where either are only opinionately wise hell is there: unlesse the other be a patient meerly.-Feltham, pt. i. Res. 85.

And 'tis the more difficult to find out verity, because it is in such inconsiderable proportions scattered in a mass of opinionative uncertainty; like the silver in Hiero's crown of

gold-Glanvill. Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 7.

Every conceited opinionist sets up an infallible chair in his own brain.-Glanvill. To Albius.

As they have any thing bad in them, they proceed from us, as they contain somewhat good, they are from God: which sufficiently confuteth those heretical opinators, and

decideth the controversie.-Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 12.

contrary the one to the other.-İd. Ib. They did opiniate two principles, not distinct only, but

So that for all his exact plot down was he [Cæsar Borgia] cast, from all his greatness, and forced to end his days in a mean condition: as it is pity but all such politic opiniators should.-South, vol. i. Ser. 8.

To which, smiling and shaking his head, he answered, why, what else can be thought or said of it, but that in this the opiniator overruled the annotator, and the man hath a mind to indulge his fancy?-Id. vol. iii. Ser. 9. Note.

Be sure not to let your son be bred up in the art and for

anoon is the ende -Wielif. Mark, c. 13.

Clerely to a swere ye would ask long space,
The manner is doubtfull and pinable,
To acertaine you I woll myselfe enable.

Now if the judges bee so sore and so cruell, that thei will not allowe that polycy, yet hath thys pacifier taught him

farther to saye that he did but speake it aflirmatiuely, and wil not holde it opinatiuely, and then ye wote well it is by this pacifier no heresy.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 924.

Once by fortune Heluidius Priscus Prætor-elect had opined against a matter which Vitellius affected.

Savile. Tacitus. Historie, p. 95. And verily how possibly he should admit and leave unto us sense and opinion, and not withal allow that which is sensible and opinable, a man is not able to shew. Holland. Plutarch, p. 913.

Young students shall make themselves more lovely and amiable to those with whom they converse, in case they be not so opinative and stiffe, that they will not relent nor give place one jot in disputations, if they have once taken a pitch against others.-Id. Ib. p. 10.

Keep thy word and promise, be constant in a good resolution. Speak truth. Be not opinative; mantaine no factions. Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 355.

Men are so far in love with their own opiniastre conceits, as they cannot patiently endure opposition.

Ralegh. Arts of Empire, c. 14. But if you have no mercy upon them, yet spare yourself, lest you bejade the good galloway-your own opiniaster witand make the very conceit itself blush with spur-galling.

Milton. Animad. upon the Remonstrants' Defence. Lest popular opiniatre [opiniatrely, in some editions] should arise, we will deliver the chief opinions. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 9. Next, in matters of death, the laws of England, wherof you have intruded to be an opiniastrous sub-advocate, and are bound to defend them, conceive it not enjoined in scripture, when or for what cause they shall put to death, as in adultry, theft, and the like.-Milton. Colasterion.

The first obstacle to good counsell is pertinacy or opiniativeness.-Ralegh. Arts of Empire, c. 14.

Weak and wilful opiners, but not just arbitrators.

Bp. Taylor. Artificial Handsomeness, p. 157.

it in others; unless, instead of an able man, you desire to have him an insignificant wrangler, opiniator in discourse, and priding himself in contradicting others. Locke. Of Education, s. 189. Man not enduring to be termed a foppish simpleton, doting on speculations, and enslaved to rules, a fantastical humourist a precise bigot, a rigid stoick, a demure sneakesby, alownish singularist, or non-conformist to ordinary usage, a stiff opiniaire, &c-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 34.

The floating of other men's opinions in our brains, makes us not one jot the more knowing, though they happen to be true. What in them was science, is in us but opiniatrely: whilst we give up our assent only to reverend names, and do not. as they did, imploy our own reason to understand those truths which gave them reputation.

Locke. Hum. Underst. b. i. c. 4.

The one [set declamation] sets the thoughts upon wit and false colours, and not upon truth: the other [captious logical disputes] teaches fallacy, wrangling, and opiniatry. Id. Of Education, s. 98. The entertainment the mind gives this sort of propositions, [probability] is called belief, assent, or opinion, which is the admitting or receiving any proposition for true, upon arguments or proofs that are found to persuade us to receive it as true, without certain knowledge that it is so. Id. Hum. Underst. b. iv. c. 25.

Well of all fops, commend me to him for the greatest, he's so opinion'd of his own abilities, that he is ever designing somewhat, and yet he sows his stratagems so shallow, that every daw can pick 'em up: from a piotting fool, good Lord deliver me.

Dryden. Sir Martin Mar-all, Act i Our author Hales was esteemed a man very opinionative tho' otherwise very learned.-Wood. Athena Oxon. vol. i. Opinion is the result of obscure and intermediate perception. That the planets revolve about the sun, is a branch of knowledge; that they are inhabited by beings similar to men is only an opinion. Belsham. Philosophy of the Mind, c. 5. s. 1. People of clear heads are what the world calls opinionated. Shenstone.

At that moment appeared Kent, painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays.

Id. Ib. p. 131. Opinion is a light, vaine, crude, and imperfect thing, setled in the imagination; but never arriving at the understanding, there to obtaine the tincture of reason. B Jonson. Discoveries.