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See oble. Obelia (ō-bē'li-ä), n. [NL., [NL., obeliac (ō-bē'li-ak), a. [ IMG:content-1555.jpg:[blocks in formation] obeisance (ō-bā'- or ō-bē'sans), n . [Formerly etry. also obeysance ; obeisance , obe is a unce , obey- saunce, OF. obei ance , F. obéi ance , obedi- ence, obei ant , F. obéi ant , obedient: see obeisant.] 1. Authority; subjection; power or right to demand obedience. Ye shall here haue the rewle and gouernaunce Of this contre, with all my full powre; My men shall be vnder your obeiseaunce . All other people... Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1096. within this our Realme or else where vnder our obeysance, iurisdiction, and rule. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 267. 21. Obedience. He bynt him to perpetuall obe is a unce. Chaucer , Complaint of Mars, 1. 47. 3. Deferential deportment. Of thy wordes farsed with plesaunce, And of thy feyned trow the and thy manere, With thyne obeys a unce and humble chere. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 1375. Hepzibah had unconsciously flattered herself with the idea that there would be a gleam, or halo, of some kind or other, about her person, which would insure an obe i sance to her sterling gentility, or at least a tacit recognition of it. Hawthorne , Seven Gables, iii. 4. A bow or courtesy; an act of reverence, dutifulne , or deference. Ryght as a serpent hit him under floures Til he may sen his tyme for to byte, Ryght so this god of love, this ypocryte, Doth so his ceremonies and obeisances . Chaucer , Squire's Tale, 1. 507. IMG:content-1556.jpg:[blocks in formation] To this both knights and dames their homage made, And due obeisance to the daisy paid. Dryden, Flower and Leaf, 1. 363. She, curtseying her obeisance , let us know The Prince Ida waited. Tennyson, Prince , ii. There are the obeisances : these, of their several kinds, serve to expre reverence in its various degrees, to gods, to rulers, and to private persons. H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., § 345. obeisancy (ō-bā'- or ō-bēsan-si), n . [As obe i sance (see-cy).] Same as obeisance . [Rare.] obeisantt (ō-ba'- or ō-bē'sant), a. [ obe i sant , obei ant , F. obéi ant , obedient, ppr. of obéir , obey: see obey .] Obedient; subject. And obeisant and redy to his honde Were alle his liges. Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 10. IMG:content-1557.png:[blocks in formation] the form of an obelisk. larged section. In the open temples of the Druids, they had an obeliscal stone set upright. Stukeley , Palæographia Sacra, p. 16. obeliscar (ob'e-lis-kär), a. [L. obeliscus , obelisk, + -ar3 .] Having the form or character of an obelisk; obeliscal. obelise, v. t. See obelize . obelisk (ob'e-lisk), n. [F. obélisque = Sp. Pg. It. obelisco , L. obeliscus , an obelisk (pillar), LL. a rosebud, also a mark in writing, ὀβελός , a spit, a pointed pillar, a mark used in writing: see obelus .] 1. A tapering shaft of rectangular plan, generally finished with a pyramidal apex. The apex in the typical obelisks of ancient Egypt was sheathed with a bronze cap. The proportion of the thick ne to the height is nearly the same in all Egyptian obelisks-that is, between one ninth and one tenth; and the thickne at the top is never le than half nor greater IMG:content-1558.jpg:[ocr errors] obesity Small models of obelisks are found in the tombs of the age of the pyramid builders, and represented in their hieroglyphics. J. Fergu on, Hist. Arch., I. 129. 2. In printing and writing, a sign resembling a small dagger (†), and hence also called a dag ger. It was formerly employed in editions of ancient authors to point out and censure spurious or doubtful pa ages, and for like purposes, but is now generally used as a reference-mark to direct the reader to a marginal note or foot-note on the same page, in dictionaries to distinguish obsolete words, or before dates in biographical or historical works of reference to indicate the year of death. The double obelisk is a mark of reference of the form 1. The Lord Keeper... was scratched with their obelisk , that he favoured the Puritans. Bp . Hacket , Abp. Williams, i. 95. obelize (ob'e-liz), v . t .; pret. and pp. obelized , ppr. obelizing . [ obelus + -ize .] To mark with an obelisk; condemn as spurious, doubtful, or objectionable, by appending an obelisk; hence, to censure. Also obelise, and formerly obolize. Next comes the young critic: she is disgusted with age; and upon system eliminates (or, to speak with Aristarchus, "obelizes") all the gray hairs. De Quincey, Homer, i. Recent editors who have taken on themselves the high office of guiding English youth in its first study of Shakespeare have proposed to excise or to obelise whole pa ages. Swinburne , Shakespeare, p. 19. obelus (ob'e-lus), n.; pl. obeli (-li). [