Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: OB-LIV'I-ON – OB-REP'TION
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OB-LIV'I-ON, n. [L. oblivio.]
- Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance. Among our crimes oblivion may be set. Dryden.
- A forgetting of offenses, or remission of punishment. An act of oblivion is an amnesty, or general pardon of crimes and offenses, granted by a sovereign, by which punishment is remitted.
OB-LIV'I-OUS, a. [L. obliviosus.]
- Causing forgetfulness. Shak. The oblivious calm of indifference. J. M. Mason. Behold the wonders of th' oblivious lake. Pope.
- Forgetful. Cavendish.
OB-LIV'I-OUS-LY, adv.
Forgetfully.
OB-LOC'U-TOR, n.
A gainsayer. [Not in use.] Bull.
OB'LONG, a. [Fr. from L. oblongus.]
Longer than broad. Harris.
OB'LONG, n.
A figure or solid which is longer than it is broad.
OB'LONG-ISH, a.
Somewhat oblong.
OB'LONG-LY, a.
In an oblong form. Cheyne.
OB'LONG-NESS, n.
The state of being longer than broad.
OB-LONG-O'VATE, a.
In botany, between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter. Martyn.
OB-LO'QUI-OUS, a. [See Obloquy.]
Containing obloquy; reproachful. [Little used.] Naunton.
OB'LO-QUY, n. [L. obloquor; ob and loquor, to speak.]
- Censorious speech; reproachful language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions. Shall names that made your city the glory of the earth, be mentioned with obloquy and detraction? Addison.
- Cause of reproach; disgrace. [Not used.] Shak.
OB-LUC-TA'TION, n. [L. obluctor; ob and luctor, to struggle.]
A struggling or striving against; resistance. [Little used.] Fotherby.
OB-MU-TES'CENCE, n. [L. obmutesco, to be silent.]
- Loss of speech; silence. Brown.
- A keeping silence. Paley.
OB-NOX'IOUS, a. [L. obnoxius; ob and noxius, hurtful, from noceo.]
- Subject; answerable. The writings of lawyers, which are tied and obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon.
- Liable; subject to cognizance or punishment. We know ourselves obnoxious to God's severe justice. Calamy.
- Liable; exposed; as, friendship obnoxious to jealousies. Hayward.
- Reprehensible; censurable; not approved; as, obnoxious authors. Fell.
- Odious; hateful; offensive; with to; as, the minister was obnoxious to the whigs.
- Hurtful; noxious. Milton.
OB-NOX'IOUS-LY, adv.
- In a state of subjection or liability.
- Reprehensibly; odiously; offensively.
OB-NOX'IOUS-NESS, n.
- Subjection or liableness to punishment. Hall.
- Odiousness; offensiveness. The obnoxiousness of the law rendered the legislature unpopular.
OB-NU'BI-LATE, v.t. [L. obnubilor; ob and nubilo; nubes, mist, cloud.]
To cloud; to obscure. Burton.
OB-NU'BI-LA-TED, pp.
Clouded; obscured.
OB-NU-BI-LA'TION, n.
The act or operation of making dark or obscure. Beddoes. Waterhouse.
O'BOE, n.
A wind instrument sounded through a reed; the hautboy.
OB'OLE, n. [L. obolus.]
In pharmacy, the weight of ten grains or half a scruple. Encyc.
OB'O-LUS, n. [L. from Gr. οβολος.]
A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about two cents in value, or a penny farthing sterling.
OB-O'VATE, a.
In botany, inversely ovate; having the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf. Martyn.
OB-REP'TION, n. [L. obrepo; ob and repo, to creep.]
The act of creeping on with secresy or by surprise. Cudworth.