obeahman, obeah woman

A man or woman who practices Obi (q. v.). "A negro, when he is taken ill, inquires of the Obeah man the cause of his sickne ." -B. Edwards: Brit. West Indies (ed. 1819), ii. 111. *o-be-di-ble, a. [Lat. obedio =to obey.] Obedient, compliant. "By the obedible submi ion of their created nature." Bp. Hall: Contempl.; Christ among the Gergesenes. õ-bē'-di-ençe, *o-be-dy-ence, subst . [Fr., from Lat. obedient i a , from obediens , pr. par. of obedio = to obey; Sp. & Port. obediencia; Ital. obedienza , obbedienza .] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The quality or state of being obedient; dutiful submi ion to authority or restraint; compliance with command, prohibition, or direction; readine to obey that which is required or directed by authority. "Myself, and all the Angelic Host our happy state, Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds.' Milton: P. L. , v. 537. 2. Words or actions exhibiting respect or reverence; dutifulne . "I am your wife in all obedience ." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew (Ind. 2). II. Ecclesiology and Church History : 1. The duty which the clergy owe to their immediate superiors in all things consistent with the law of God and of the Church. 2. The submi ion, in all things lawful, which members of religious orders and congregations vow, at profe ion, to their superiors and to the rules and constitutions. 3. The written command by which a superior in a religious order or congregation communicates any special order to a subject, e. g ., to leave one house and go to another, or to undertake or relinquish a certain office. 4. A party, a following. This use of the term arose in the fourteenth century, when the seat of the papacy was transferred to Avignon by Clement V. It has now a wider signification: thus, the Roman obedience includes all who acknowledge the spiritual supremacy of the Roman Pontiff; the expres sion the Anglican obedience is only employed by those who claim to constitute the Catholic section of the Establishment. obey. *(1) To give obedience: To be obedient; to "To give obedience where 'tis truly owed." Shakesp.: Macbeth , v. 2. marine; gō, pět, "To whate'er above was fated Obediently he bow'd his soul." set up on the Thames Embankment in London. It is 68 feet 51⁄2 inches in height, with a width at the base of 7 feet 10 inches by 7 feet 5 inches. Of Egyp- tian obelisks 42 are known, some broken; 12 at Rome; 1, from Luxor, set up in the Place de la Con- corde, Paris, October, 1836; 5 in England; 1 in Cen- She much obeyed him, but she lov'd him more." Dryden: Eleonora , 177. tral Park, New York. The obelisks improperly named Cleopatra's Needles were erected by Thoth- mes III. at On (Helio polis), about 1600 B. C. One was removed to Alexandria by August us, about 23 B. C. After being long embedded in the shore, it was acquired for Great Britain by Sir Ralph Aber- cromby, in 1801; but not removed until 1878, when it was erected on the Thames Embankment in the City of London. The other was presented to the United States and now stands in Central Park, New York. The work of moving this obelisk from Alex- andria to New York was managed by Commander H. H. Gorringe, of the United States Navy. The do as one is bid. officer reached Alexandria October 16, 1879, and at once began to work with one hundred Arabs, who completed the excavation of the obelisk's pedestal by removing 1,730 cubic yards of earth in about twenty days. The machinery for lowering the mon- olith was then attached, and the block was laid in a horizontal position. Within the foundation and steps of the pedestal were found stones and imple- ments engraved with emblematic designs, and some delay was caused in order that these might be taken up very carefully to be placed in exactly the same position in the pedestal when reërected in New York. The obelisk was removed to the wharf and upon the steamer waiting for it by means of cannon balls rolling in metal grooves. The shaft, pedestal, ō-bei-sance, s. [Fr. obéi ance , from obéi ant , and steps of the obelisk were removed separately, pr. par. of obéir =to obey (q. v.).] 1. Obedience. IMG:content-0182.png:[blocks in formation] the entire ma weighing 1,470 tons. The steamer bearing this freight left Alexandria June 12, 1880, and arrived at New York July 20. The iron tracks and on these the monolith was disembarked Septem- ber 16. Next the rise and fall of the tide was util- ized to float it up the North River and land it at the foot of Ninety-sixth street, where it was moved by steam power on tracks with rollers to Central Park. The track was two miles long, and was in- clined, the upper part of it being laid on trestle- work, in order to bring the shaft, when it was to be raised, at a proper height above the pedestal. Pul- leys, chains, and ropes were then attached, and, the signal being given, the great ma was rapidly and gently raised, and in a short time stood firmly upon the base which had been previously securely put in place. The Washington obelisk at Washington is 555 feet high, and was dedicated Feb. 22, 1885. The Bunker Hill Monument may also be properly called an obelisk, and that with the Washington (above noted) are the two most famous of American con- monument was erected took place June 17, 1775, Just fifty years later the Marquis de La Fayette laid its corner stone. It is 30 feet square at base and 231 feet high. It was dedicated in 1843. obě-lisk, v . t . [OBELISK, 8. ] To mark with an obelisk, as in printing or writing. IMG:content-0183.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0184.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0185.png:[blocks in formation] obimbricate obtaining revenge, conciliating favor. the discov ery of a thief or an adulterer, and the prediction of Cuture events. 2. The magical power or influence by which the purposes enumerated in def. 1 were supposed to be obtained. "The multitude of occasions which may provoke the negroes to exercise the powers of Obi against each other." -B. Edwards: Brit. West Indies (ed. 1819), ii. 111. 3. A kind of fetish in which the power known as obi was supposed to reside. "The obi is usually composed of a farrago of materials, blood, feathers, parrots beaks, dogs' teeth, alligators teeth, broken bottles, grave-dirt, rum, and eggshells." most of which are enumerated in Jamaica law, viz., B. Edwards: Brit. West Indies (ed. 1819), ii. 111, 112. To put obi on: To bewitch by means of obi. When this was done for purposes of revenge, the person on whom obi was put usually fell into a morbid state of body and mind, terminating only by death. This was either the effect of a disordered imagination, or, more probably, of poison. "She proceeded to say that her stepmother had put obi upon her."-B. Edwards: Brit. West Indies (ed. 1819), 1.115.