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OB'SEQUENT, a. [L. obsequens.] Obedient; submissive to. [Little used.]
OBSECRA'TION, n. 1. Intreaty; supplication. 2. A figure of rhetoric, in which th...
OB'SECRATE, v.t. [L. obsecro.] To beseech; to intreat; to supplicate; to pray ea...
OBSCU'RENESS, OBSCU'RITY, n. [L. obscuritas.] 1. Darkness; want of light. We wai...
OBSCU'RELY, adv. 1. Darkly; not clearly; imperfectly; as an object obscurely See...
OBSCU'RE, a. [L. obscurus.] 1. Dark; destitute of light. Whoso curseth his fathe...
OBSCURA'TION, n. [L. obscuratio.] 1. The act of darkening. 2. The state of being...
OBSCE'NENESS, OBSCEN'ITY, n. [L. obscaenitas.] 1. Impurity in expression or repr...
OBSCE'NELY, adv. In a manner offensive to chastity or purity; impurely; unchastely.
OBSCE'NE, a. [L. obscaenus.] 1. Offensive to chastity and delicacy; impure; expr...
OBREPTI'TIOUS, a. [supra.] Done or obtained by surprise; with secrecy or by conc...
OBREP'TION, n. [L. obrepo; ob and repo, to creep.] The act of creeping on with s...
OBO'VATE, a. In botany, inversely ovate; having the narrow end downward; as an o...
OB'OLUS, n. [L. from G.] A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drac...
OB'OLE, n. [L. obolus.] In pharmacy, the weight of ten grains or half a scruple.
OBNUBILA'TION, n. The act or operation of making dark or obscure.