representing as an object.

To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to represent or consider as an object; to render objective.

The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection.

Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words.

One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy.

To objectify.

Converting into an object.

The objective case.

An object glass. See under Object, n.

In the manner or state of an object; as, a determinate idea objectively in the mind.

Objectivity.

The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective.

To make an object of; to regard as an object; to place in the position of an object.

Having no object; purposeless.

One who objects; one who offers objections to a proposition or measure.

See Chippeways.

One who makes objection; an objector.

A binding by oath.

To chide; to reprove.

The act of objurgating; reproof.

Designed to objurgate or chide; containing or expressing reproof; culpatory.

Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.

One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates. One of the Oblati.

The quality or state of being oblate.

Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic state. A class of persons, especially in the Middle Ages, who offered themselves and their property to a monastery.

The act of offering, or of making an offering.

One who makes an offering as an act worship or reverence.

To bark or snarl, as a dog.

The act of oblatrating; a barking or snarling.

An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.

To delight; to please greatly.

The act of pleasing highly; the state of being greatly pleased; delight.

Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy.

To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive.

under a moral obligation to someone.

The act of obligating.

relating or constituting or qualified to create a legal or financial obligation; as, obligational authority.

See Obbligato.

In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation.

The quality or state of being obligatory.

Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier.

To attach, as by a bond.

The person to whom another is bound, or the person to whom a bond is given.

Obligation.

One who, or that which, obliges.

Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind.

The person who binds himself, or gives his bond to another.

The act of becoming oblique; a turning to one side; obliquity; as, the obliquation of the eyes.

To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.

Having oblique angles; as, an oblique-angled triangle.

In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly.

Quality or state of being oblique.

The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.

Indistinct; slurred over.

Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.

destroyed so thoroughly as to be unrecognizable or imperceptible.

making undecipherable or imperceptible; as, obliterating mists.

The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction.

Tending or serving to obliterate.

The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.

A disputer; a gainsayer.

A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad.

Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.

The medulla oblongata.

Of or pertaining to the medulla oblongata; medullar.

Somewhat oblong.

In an oblong form.

State or quality of being oblong.

A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis. Cf. Oblatum, and see Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.

Containing obloquy; reproachful

Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension.

A struggle against; resistance; opposition.

A becoming dumb; loss of speech.

Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.

To cloud; to obscure.

One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.

A performer on the oboe.

Possessing only small coins; impoverished.

A weight of twelve grains; or, according to some, of ten grains, or half a scruple.

See Obelize.

A copper coin, used in the Ionian Islands, about one cent in value.

A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about three cents in value. An ancient weight, the sixth part of a drachm.

Obversely omegoid.

Obovate.

Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.

The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise.

Done or obtained by surprise; with secrecy, or by concealment of the truth.

To annul indirectly by enacting a new and contrary law, instead of by expressly abrogating or repealing the old one.

A rent. A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate.

That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chastity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture.

One who obscures; one who prevents enlightenment or hinders the progress of knowledge and wisdom.

The system or the principles of the obscurants.

Same as Obscurant.

The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured; as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse.

Obscurity.

In an obscure manner.

The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured; obscuration.

Obscurity.

One who, or that which, obscures.

The quality or state of being obscure.

To beseech; to supplicate; to implore.

The act of obsecrating or imploring; as, the obsecrations of the Litany, being those clauses beginning with /By./

Expressing, or used in, entreaty; supplicatory.

Obedient; submissive; obsequious.

Obsequiousness.

See Obsequy.

Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.

In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly.

The quality or state of being obsequious.

The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural.

Capable of being observed; discernible; noticeable.

The act or practice of observing or noticing with attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; -- usually with a sense of strictness and fidelity; as, the observance of the Sabbath is general; the strict observance of duties.

Observance.

A thing to be observed.

One who observes forms and rules.

One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.

In an observant manner.

The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.

Of or pertaining to observation; consisting of, or containing, observations.

Observing; watchful.