Emily Dickinson Lexicon

O-BE'DI-ENT-LY, adv.

With obedience; with due submission to commands; with submission or compliance with orders. Tillotson.

O-BEI-SANCE, n. [Fr. obeissance, from obeir, to obey, L. obedio.]

A bow or courtesy; an act of reverence made by an inclination of the body or the knee. Gen. xxxvii.

OB-E-LIS'CAL, a.

In the form of an obelisk. Stukeley.

OB'E-LISK, n. [L. obeliscus; Gr. {foreign}, dim. of {foreign}, a spit.]

1. A truncated, quadrangular and slender pyramid intended as an ornament, and often charged with inscriptions or hieroglyphics. Some ancient obelisks appear to have been erected in honor of distinguished persons or their achievements. Ptolemy Philadelphus raised one of 83 cubits high in honor of Arsinoe. Augustus erected one in the Campus Martius at Rome, which served to mark the hours on a horizontal dial drawn on the pavement. Encyc.
2. In writing and printing, a reference or mark referring the reader to a note in the margin, thus, †. It is used also for a mark of censure; or for designating obsolete words, or for other purposes at the pleasure of the writer.

O-BEQ'UI-TATE, v.i. [L. obeguito; ob and equito, to ride; equus, a horse.]

To ride abou. [Not used.] Cockeram.

OB-EQ-UI-TA'TION, n.

The act of riding about. [Not used.] Cockeram.

OB-ER-RA'TION, n. [L. oberro; ob and erro, to wander.]

1 The act of wandering about. [Little used.] Johnson.

O-BESE, a. [L. obesus]

Fat; fleshy. [Little used.] Gayton.

O-BEY, v.t. [Fr. obeir, contracted from L. obedio, It. ubbidire; supposed to be contracted from ob and audio, to hear. See Gr. {foreign}.]

1. To comply with the commands, orders or instructions of a superior, or with the requirements of law, moral, political or municipal; to do that which is commanded or required, or to forbear doing that which is prohibited. He who has learned to obey, will know how to command. Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Eph. vi. Servants, obey in all things your masters. Col. iii.
2. To submit to the government of; to be ruled by. All Israel obeyed Solomon. I Chron. xxii. Dan. vii.
3. To submit to the direction or control of. Seamen say, the ship will not obey the helm. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it ht the lusts thereof. Rom. vi. James iii.
4. Tn yield to the impulse, power or operation of; as, to obey stimulus. Darwin. Relentless dime, destroying power, When stone and brass obey.

O-BEY-ED, pp.

Complied with; performed; as command; yielded to.

O-BEY-ER, n.

One who yields obedience.

O-BEY-ING, ppr.

Complying with commands; submitting to.

O-BEY-ING-LY, adv.

Complyingly; submissively.

OB-FUS'CATE, v.t. [L. ob and fusco, to obscure.]

To darken; to obscure. Waterhouse.

OB-FUS'CA-TED, pp.

Darkened in color. Shenstone.

OB-FUS'CA-TING, ppr.

Darkening; obscuring.

OB-FUS'CA-TION, n.

The act of darkening or rendering obscure; a clouding. Obfuscations of the cornea. Darwin.

OB'IT, n. [L. obiit, obivit; ob and eo, to go.]

Properly, death; decease; hence, funeral solemnities or anniversary service for the soul of the deceased on the day of his death. Encyc. Mountagu.

O-BIT'U-AL, a. [L. obeo, to die; obitus, death.]

Pertaining to obits, or the days when funeral solemnities are celebrated; as, obitual days. Encyc.

O-BIT'U-A-RI-LY, adv.

In the manner of an obituary.

O-BIT'U-A-RY, a.

Relating to the decease of a person or persons; as, an obituary notice.

O-BIT'U-A-RY, n. [Fr. obituaire.]

1. A list of the dead, or a register of obitual anniversary days, when service is performed for the dead. Encyc.
2. An account of persons deceased; notice of the death of a person, often accompanied with a brief biographical sketch of his character.

OB-JECT', a.

Opposed; presented in opposition. [Not used.] Sandys.

OB-JECT', a.

1. I. [L, objicio; ob and jacio, to throw against.]
2. To oppose; to, present in opposition. Pallas to their eyes The mist objected, and condens'd the skies. Pope. To present or offer in opposition, as a charge criminal, or as a reason adverse to something supposed to be erroneous or wrong; with to or against. The book—giveth liberty to object any crime against such as are to be ordered. Whitgifte. The adversaries of religion object against professors the irregularity of their lives, and too often with justice. Anon, There was this single fault that Erasmus, though an enemy, could abject to him. Atterbury,
3. To-offer; to exhibit. [Little used.] Warburton,

OB'JECT, n. [Fr. objet; L objectum, objectus. See the Verb.]

1. That about which any power or faculty is employed, or something apprehended or presented to the mind by sensation or imagination. Thus that quality of a rose which is perceived by the sense of smell, is an object of perception. When the object is not in contact with the organ of sense, there must be some medium through which we obtain the perception of it. The impression which objects make on the senses, must be by the immediate application of them to the organs of sense, or by means of the medium that intervenes between the organs and the objects.
2. That to which the mind is directed for accomplishment or attainment; end; ultimate purpose. Happiness is the object of every man's desires; we all strive to attain to that object. Wealth and honor are pursued with eagerness as desirable objects.
3. Something presented to the senses or the mind, to excite emotion, affection or passion. This passenger felt some degree of concern at the sight of so moving an object. Atterbury. In this sense, the word uttered with a particular emphasis, signifies something that may strongly move our pity, abhorrence or disgust. What an object!
4. In grammar, that which is produced, influenced or acted on by something else; that which follows a transitive verb. When we say, "God created the world," world denotes the thing produced, and is the object after the verb created. When we say, "the light affects the eye," eye denotes that which is affected or acted on. When we say, "instruction directs the mind or opinions," mind and opinions are the objects influenced.