Dictionary: OB-LIV'I-ON – OB-REP'TION

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OB-LIV'I-ON, n. [L. oblivio.]

  1. Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance. Among our crimes oblivion may be set. Dryden.
  2. 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.]

  1. Causing forgetfulness. Shak. The oblivious calm of indifference. J. M. Mason. Behold the wonders of th' oblivious lake. Pope.
  2. 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.]

  1. 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.
  2. 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.]

  1. Loss of speech; silence. Brown.
  2. A keeping silence. Paley.

OB-NOX'IOUS, a. [L. obnoxius; ob and noxius, hurtful, from noceo.]

  1. Subject; answerable. The writings of lawyers, which are tied and obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon.
  2. Liable; subject to cognizance or punishment. We know ourselves obnoxious to God's severe justice. Calamy.
  3. Liable; exposed; as, friendship obnoxious to jealousies. Hayward.
  4. Reprehensible; censurable; not approved; as, obnoxious authors. Fell.
  5. Odious; hateful; offensive; with to; as, the minister was obnoxious to the whigs.
  6. Hurtful; noxious. Milton.

OB-NOX'IOUS-LY, adv.

  1. In a state of subjection or liability.
  2. Reprehensibly; odiously; offensively.

OB-NOX'IOUS-NESS, n.

  1. Subjection or liableness to punishment. Hall.
  2. 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.