Ormin

See Ormulum. Ormonde (or'mond). The former name of East Munster (Tipperary), Ireland. Ormonde. A bay thoroughbred horse foaled in 1883. In 1886 he won the Derby, St. Leger, and Two Thou sand Guineas. He became a roarer, and was sent to Buenos Ayres. In 1892 he was bought by Mr. McDonough of Cali fornia for $150,000, the largest price ever paid for a single animal. Ormonde is considered the greatest racer ever bred in England. Ormonde, Dukes and Earls of. See Butler . Ormskirk (ôrmz'kėrk). A town in Lancashire, England, 12 miles north-northeast of Liverpool. Population (1891), 6,298. Ormulum (or'mū-lum). A series of metrical homilies on the New Testament, with paraphrases, composed by Orm or Ormin in the first part of the 13th century. He was an August in i an canon, and it is a umed that he lived in Lincoln shire or Nottingham shire, but there are arguments in favor of Ormskirk in Lancashire. Orm had a phonetic system of his own, distinguishing the short vowels by doubling the following consonant. The Ormulum was first edited from the MS. by Robert Meadows White in 1852. The intention of his work corresponded to that of the Scripture Paraphrase of Cedmon, although it differed much plan and execution. His work is called, from his own name, the Ormulum. "This boc i nemmned Orrmulum Forrthi that Orm itt wrohhte." But though the author there, for a purpose, calls himself Orm, he says elsewhere that he was named Ormin. There remains only a portion of the work, and it is in a single MS. which forms a folio volume in the Junian collection, now preserved in the Bodleian.