Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OB-JECT', v.i.

To oppose in words or arguments; to offer reasons against. The counsel objected to the admission of the plaintif's witnesses.

OB-JECT'A-BLE, a.

That may be opposed. Taylor.

OB-JECT'ED, pp.

Opposed in words; offered reasons against.

OB'JECT-GLASS, n.

In a telescope or microscope, the glass placed at the end of a tube next the object.

OB-JECT'ING, ppr.

Opposing; offering reasons against.

OB-JEC'TION, n. [L. objectio.]

1. The act of objecting.
2. That which is presented in opposition; adverse reason or argument. The defendant urged several objections to the plaintif's claims. The plaintif has removed or overthrown those objections.
3. That which may be offered in opposition; reason existing, though not offered, against a measure or an opinion. We often have objections in our minds which we never offer or present in opposition.
4. Criminal charge; fault found.

OB-JEC'TION-A-BLE, a.

Justly liable to objections; such as may be objected against.

OB-JEC'TIVE, a. [Fr. objectif.]

1. Belonging to the object; contained in the object. Objective certainty, is when the proposition is certainly true in itself; and subjective, when we are certain of the truth of it. The one is in things, the other in onr minds. Watts.
2. In grammar, the objective case is that which follows a transitive verb or a preposition; that case in which the object of the verb is placed, when produced or affected by the act expressed by the verb. This case in English answers to the oblique cases of the Latin. Lowth.

OB-JECT'IVE-LY, adv.

1. In the manner of an object; as, a determinate idea objectively in the mind. Locke.
2. In the state of an object. Brown.

OB-JECT'IVE-NESS, n.

The state of being an object. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produccth light? Hale.

OB-JEC-TIV'I-TY, n.

Objectiveness.

OB'JECT-LESS, a.

Having no object. Coleridge.

OB-JECT'OR, n.

One that objects; one that offers arguments or reasons in opposition to a proposition or measure.

OB-JUR'GATE, v.t. [L. objurgatio; ob and jurgo, to chide.]

To chide; to reprove. [Not used.]

OB-JUR-GA'TION, n. [L. objurgatio]

The act of chiding by way of censure; reproof; reprehension. [Little used.] Bramhall.

OB-JUR'GA-TO-RY, a.

Containing censure or reproof; culpatory. [Little used.] Howell.

OB-LA'DA, n.

A fish of the sparus kind, variegated with longitudinal lines, and having a large black spot on each side, near the tail. Dict. Nat. Hist.

OB-LATE, a. [L. oblatus, offero; ob and fero, to bear.]

Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, an Oblate spheroid, which is the figure of the earth. Cheyne.

OB-LATE-NESS, n.

The quality or state of being oblate. Fleming.

OB-LA'TION, n. [L. oblatio, from offero; ob and fero, to bear or bring.]

Any thing offered or presented in worship or sacred service; an offering; a sacrifice. Bring no more vale oblations. Is. i.

OB-LEC'TATE, v.t. [L. oblecto.]

To delight; to please highly. [Not used.]

OB-LEC-TA'TION, n.

The act of pleasing highly; delight. Feltham.

OB'LI-GATE, v.t. [L. obligo; ob and ligo, to bind.]

To bind, as one's self, in a moral and legal sense; to impose on, as a duty which the law or good faith may enforce. A man may obligate himself to pay money, or erect a house, either by bond, by covenant or by a verbal promise. A man obligates himself only by a positive act of his own. We never say, a man obligales his heirs or executors. Until recently, the sense of this ward has been restricted to positive and personal acts; and when moral duty or law binds a person to do something, the word oblige has been used. But this distinction is not now observed. The millions of mankind, as one vast fraternity, should feel obligated by a sense of duty and the impulse of affection, to realize the equal rights and to subserve the best interests of each other. Proudfit. That's yonr true plan, to obligate The present minister of state. Churchill.

OB'LI-GA-TED, pp.

Bound by contract or promise.

OB'LI-GA-TING, ppr.

Binding by covenant, contract, promise or bond.