oblł (ob)

[ sols, school divinity. Bale, Erasmus, ., explode, as a vast ocean of obs and Burton , Anat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 150. A you sand idle questions, nice distinctions, subtleties, Obs and Sols . Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 625. The youth is in a wofull case; Whilst he should give us sols and obs, He brings us in some simple bobs, And fathers them on Mr. Hobs. Loyal Songs, II. 217. ( Nares.) it may be humorous, or even affectionate, among ob. An abbreviation of the Latin obiit , he (or rude and free-living men. (c) An exclamatory she) died: used in dates. word or phrase, usually without appropriate ob-. [L. ob- , prefix (usually changed to oc-be- ne to the subject in hand, expre ing surprise, and generally displeasure, though sometimes even approval or admiration. It may refer to some- thing sacred, and even be what is called blasphemous, but is often wholly unmeaning, or is a corruption or softening of an originally blasphemous expre ion, as zounds ! for God's (Christ's) wounds, egad for by God, etc. - Corporal oatht. See corp or all. High gate oatht, a jocose a everation which travelers toward London were required to take at a tavern at High gate. They were obliged to swear that they would not drink small beer when they could get strong, unle indeed they liked the small better, with other statements of a similar character. - Iron-clad oath, an oath characterized by the severity of its requirements and penalties: especially applied to the oath required by the United States government from certain persons in civil and official life after the civil war of 1861-5, on account of its rigor with reference to acts of disloyalty or sympathy therewith.-Judicial oath, an oath administered in a judicial proceeding, sometimes used as including any oath taken before an authorized officer in a case in which the law sanctions the taking of an oath: in contradistinction to extrajudicial oath, or an oath which, though taken, it may be, before a judicial officer, is not required or sanctioned by law. Also called voluntary oath. - Oath of abjuration. See abjuration. - Oath of allegiance, a declaration under oath promising to bear true allegiance to a specified power. - Oath of conformity and obe dience, a vow taken by priests, bishops, and members of the Roman Catholic Church. - Oath of fealty. See fealty. -Oath of office, an oath required by law from an officer, promising the faithful discharge of his duties as such.Oath of opinion. See opinion. - Oath of supremacy. See supremacy.-Poor debtor's oath. See debtor.Promi ory oath, an oath by which something is promised, such as the oath of a prince to rule constitutionally. - Promi ory Oaths Act, a British statute of 1868 (31 and 32 Vict., c. 72), amended 1871 (34 and 35 Vict., c. 48), which prescribes the form of the oath of allegiance and official oaths. - Qualified oath, in Scots law, the oath of a party on a reference where circumstances are stated which must nece arily be taken as part of the oath, and which therefore qualify the admi ion or denial. Imp. Dict. To make oath. See makel. - Upon one's oath, sworn to speak the truth. IMG:content-1549.png:[blocks in formation] For the i seyn, He that swerethe will disceyve his Neyghbore: and therefor alle that the i don, the i don it withouten Othe . His political aspirations are not forced to find expre ion in the manœuvres of oath - bound clubs. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLII. 649. fore c, to of before f-, to og- before g-, to op before p, also in some cases obs-, os- ), ob, prep., toward, to, at, upon, about, before, on account of, for; OL. op = Oscan op = Umbrian up = Gr. ἐπί, upon, to: see epi-.] A prefix in words of Latin origin, meaning 'toward,' 'to,' 'against,' etc., or 'before,' 'near,' 'along by,' but often merely intensive, and not definitely translatable. Its force is not felt in English, and it is not used in the formation of new words, except in a series of geometrical terms, applied to shape, especially in natural history, such terms being based upon oblate or oblong, and the prefix meaning 'reversed': as, obclavate, obcompre ed, obconic, obcordate, oblanceolate, obimbricate, oboval, obovate, obovoid, obambulatet (ob-am'bū-lāt), v. i. [L. obam bulatus, pp. of obambulare, walk before, near, or about, ob, before, about, + ambulare, walk: see ambulate and amble. Cf. perambulate.] To walk about. Cocker am. obrotund, etc.