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Show What if there be an old dormant ftatut® or tw 3. 'To regard or keep religioufly bringing them out of Egypt O'BSOLETENESS, 7. /. [from obfolete. State of being worn out of ufe; unfathionablenefs O'BsTACLE. 7./. [0bfacle, French; ob/la Exodusy Xile 42 4. To prafice ritually In the days of Enoch, people obferved not cirWhite cumcifion, or the Sabbath 5. To obey; to follow Zo OBSE'RVE. @. 7 1. To be attentive Somethin culum, Latin. hindrance ; obftrution Obferving men may form many judgment b Ozse'RVER. 7. /. [from ob/ferwe. 1. One who looks vigilantly on perfon clofe remarker He reads much He is a great obferver 5 and he look Quite through the deeds of men Shakefpeare Angelo There is a kind of charaéter in thy life ‘That to th' obferwer doth thy hiftor Shakefpeare's Meafure for Meafure Fully unfold Careful obfervers may foretel the hour By fure prognoftics when to dread a thow'r. Savif? 2. One who looks on ; the beholder 1If a {low pac'd ftar had ftol'n away From the obferwer's marking, he might fta Donne TFhree hundred years to fee't again Company, he thinks, leflens the thame of viee by fharing it; and therefore, if he cannot wholl avoid the eye of the obferwer, he hopes to diftraét i South at leaft by a multiplicity of obje¢ts Sometimes purulent matter may be difcharge from the glands in the upper part of the wind-pipe ‘while the lungs are found and uninfe¢ted, whic now and then has impofed on undiftinguithing 0bSerwers Blackmore 4. One who keeps any law or cuftom o pratice Man obferver nation are fuperftitious of old cuftoms whic an the diligen receive b tradition from their parents, by recordimg of thei bards and chronicles Spenfer The king after the vi€tory, as one that ha bee bred under a devout mother an was in hi | the humours, bufinefs, and diverfions, of young an Collicr old, are generally very different Some conjetures about the origin of monntain and iflands, I am obliged to look into that the may not remain as obffacles to the lefs {kilful Wewdward's Natural Hiftory Chufing rather to ufe extremities, which migh drive men to defperate obffinacy, than apply moderate remedies King Charles Moft writers ufe their words loofely and uncertainly, and do not make plain and clear dedution of words one from another, which were not difficult to do, did they not find it convenient to fhelte their ignorance, or obffinacy, under the obfcurity o their terms Locke What crops of wit and honefty appear From fpleen, from obffinacy, hate or fear Pope O'BSTINATE. adj. [cbftinatus, Latin. Stubborn; contumacious; fixed in refolution. Abfolutely ufed, it has an il fenfe; but relatively, it is neutral The queen is obflinate Nor deem'd the death fhe promis'd was fo nigh Dryden Look on Simo's mate [fro O3ssc''RVINGLY adv Attentively carefully Atterbury obferving. There is fome foul of goodnefs in things evil Would men cdfervingly diftil it out Shake[peare OBSE'S510N, 2. /. [zfé/efio, Latin. 1. The a& of befieging 2. The firft attack of Satan, antecedent t poileflion Oszst'pioNAL. adj. [obfidionalis, Latin. Di& Belonging to a fiege O'BSOLETE Wor able adj [obfoletus, Latin. out of ufe; difufed; unfathion Obfolete words may be laudably revived, whe they are more founding, or moye fignificant tha thofe in practic Dryden rous. I have known great cures don lutions of drinking no wine Her father did not fai In all fhe fpoke, the greatnefs o Yet thought the was not odflinat No afs fo meek O'BsTINATELY adwv [fro Stubbornly ; inflexibly determination Pope obffinate. with unfhake Pembroke abhorred the war as obffinately, as h loved hunting and hawking Clarendon A Greek made himfelf their prey T impofe on their belief, and Troy betray Fix'd on his aim, and obfinately ben To die undaunted, or to circumvent Dryden The man refoly'd, and fteady to his truft Inflexible to ill, d obflinately jut Can the rude rabble's influence defpife My fpoufe maintains her royal truft Tho' tempted chafte, and obftinately jufe Pope O'esTiNATENESS. 7, /. [from obffinate. Stubbornnefs # [fromob/irg clamour noife Osstri‘crion. # /. [from obfirigu Latin.] Obligation; bond He hath full right Uexempt Whom fo it pleafes him by choice From national obfriction Milton's Agenifles 76 OBSTRU'CT. . a. [odftrus, Latin. 1. To block up; to bar He them beholding, foo Comes down to fee their city, ere the tow' Obfiruiz Heav'n-tow'ss Miltor's Payadife Lo In their paffage through the glands in the lung, they obffrué? and fwell them with little tumours Blackmore Fat people are fubje@ to weaknefs in fevers becaufe the fat, melted by feverith heat, obffrusi the fmall canals Arbutbnot 2. To oppofe; to retard ; to hindes; t be in the way of No cloud interpos'd Or flar to obrué? his fight Milw OBsTRU'CTER. 2. /. [fromobfirud.] On that hinders or oppofes OssTtru'cTION. 7. /. [0bffruttio, Latin obfiru&ion, French, from obfirud. 1. Hindrance; difficulty Sure God by thefe difcoveries did defign That his clear light thro' all the world fhould fhine But the obffruéion from that difcord fprings The prince of darknefs makes twixt Chrifhian king 2. Obftacle hinders Deribam impediment ; that whic All obfpruttions in parliament, that is, all free dom in differing in votes, and debating matters wit reafon and candour, muft be taken away King Charles In his winter quarters the king expecied to mee with all the cbffruions and difficulties his enrage Clarende enemies could lay in his way Whenever a popular affembly free from obffuc tionsy and already poffefled of more pO‘v'\'fl'fha" equal balance will allow, fhall continue to think tha they have not enough, I cannot fee how the fame caufes can produce different effeéts among Us, f-‘?m Saif what they did in Greece and Rome [I phyfick [Thepblzcking ]up of any canal in the hum?} body, fo as to prevent the flowing of any fi"; through it, on account of the increafed hufl‘lszh that fluid, in proportion to the diameter 1% vefiel 4. In Shakefpeare it 'hon-ce fignifies fomethin heaped together whe no kn w g an di }t) Ay§, bu To lie in cold obfiruction, and lt)O I‘OI; "This fenfible warm motion to bec A kneaded clod Addifon clamoroufly ; noifil perons. Louduefs turbulence by obfirate refoTemple to find her mind to die no afs fo obflinate Loudly OBSTRE'PEROUSNESS Yield vants on the Lord's day very fri& and foleran obferwer OBSTRE'PEROUSLY. adv. [from ob/irep Stubborn to juftice, apt t' accufe it, an Difdainful to be try'd by't. Shakefp. Henry VIII Except you mean with obflinate repulfe To flay your fov'reign Shakefpeare that they raife daily new difputes, b Thefe obfireperous villains fhout, and ka:T ne for what they make a noife % The players do not only connive at his ?b fi, perous approbation, but repair at their owpy cof whatever damages he makes Addifin, These all the learn'd fhall at the labour ftand And Douglas lend his foft obffetrick hand Pope nature a great obferver of religious forms, caufe ‘Te Deum to be folemnly fung in the prefence o Bacon the whole army upon the place . He was fo ftri€k an obferwer of his word, tha no confideration whatever could make him brea 3 Prior Himfelf often read ufeful difcourfes to his ferof which he was always nity, who are o full of the fpisi of conua(;gégii: the midwife's office O'ssTiNacY. #n. /. [obftination, French obftinatio, Latin; from obftinate.] Stubbornnefs; contumacy; pertinacy ; perfiftency : Thefe obftreperous feepticks are the |an ‘What more natural and ufual obflacle to thof Pope who take voyages, than winds and ftorms OBSTETRICA'TION. . /. [from obfetricor, Latin.] 'The oflice of2 midwife OBsTE'TRICK. adj. [from obfletrix, Lat. Midwifith ; befitting a midwife 5 doin noif vociferous oppofed If all obfacles were cut away And that my path were even to the crown Shake/p As the ripe reverence and due of birth Difparity in age feems a greater obffacle to an inFo timate friendfhip than inequality of fortune 1 obferve, that when we have an aétion againf another's, whieh is the cafe of fome hundreds, have barely quoted the true proprietor, withou Pope's Letters obferwing upon it Loud ; clamorous Shakefpeare's Richard 111 One full of obffacles 2. To make a remark Wherever I have found her notes to be wholl The a& of ftopping up any ;{ifi? OrsTRE'PEROUS. adj. [odftreperus, 1 That mutinies in a man's bofom : it fill Watts any man, we muft for all that look upon him a our neighbour, and love him as ourfelves, payin him all that juftice, peace and charity, which ar Kettlewell due to all perfons OBsTIPA'TION. 7. /. [from obgisy Confcience is a bluthing thame-fac'd fpirit the rules of fimilitude and propertion; where caufe and effe@s are not entirely the fame Savift againft him, are they not now obfolete A night to be much obferved unto the Lord, fo and things Gre OB OB' Shakefpe Meafure for M'afi;: OusTRU'CTIVE. adj. |obfiradtifs Freni; ca fi H n r n from obfirui. . e of Cod pediment. Havin thus feparated this d?&r predetermining all cvents from thice °c afound thin |
