obituary

& s. Latin obitu (s)=death; Eng. adj. suff. -ary; Fr. obituaire.] A. As adj .: Pertaining or relating to the death of a person or persons; as, an obituary notice. B. As substantive: *1. A list of deceased persons, or of the obitual days on which the anniversary service is performed for the dead. 2. An account or notice of the decease of a person or persons, frequently accompanied with a brief biographical sketch. ob-ject, s. [OBJECT, v.; Fr. objet; O. Sp. objecto; Sp. objeto.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. That about which any power or faculty is employed; that toward which the mind is directed in any of its states or activities. "Marl borough was, not without reason, the object of their bitterest hatred."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xiv. 2. That to the attainment of which efforts are directed; that which is aimed at or desired; aim, ultimate purpose, end, desire. "The main object is to make an impre ion on the populace."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. iv. 3. That on which any action is or may be exer IMG:content-0186.png:[blocks in formation] 2882 6. One who is rendered more or le helple by disease or accident. (Scotch.) 7. A person whose appearance is ludicrously ugly, or disfigured; a guy, a sight; as, She has made quite an object of herself. *8. An obstacle. ( Bacon: Works, iii. 380.) II. Technically: 1. Gram. & Logic : The word, sentence, or member of a sentence or clause, denoting the person or thing on which the action expre ed by a transitive verb is exercised; a word or member of a sentence or clause governed by a preposition, as in the sentence, "He wrote the letter," letter is the object of wrote ; and in the sentence, "He disputed the fact of her death," the fact of her death is the ob ject of disputed. SUBJECT, 8., II. 5.] 2. Philos.: The correlative of subject. [NON-EGO, IMG:content-0187.png:[blocks in formation] Optics: The objective. The gla at that end of a telescope or microscope which is presented toward the object. By it an image of the object is formed, to be viewed by the eye-gla . In good instruments or either kind the object-gla is achromatic, and composed of two or more lenses, one or more being of flint-gla and the other or others of crown-gla . In practice the term object-gla is applied to telescopes, objective being reserved for microscopes.