GLOSSARY.

NEW- FANGLENESS, III., eager­ness for what is new.

Full of vaine follies, and new fangle­nesse. Spenser, F. Q. i. 4. 25.

NOBLE, IX.( Te Deum),' the noble army of Martyrs,' pure, lustrous = candidatus( in the Lat. origi­nal), white- robed.

NOCTURN, II., a seventh portion of the Psalms read at Nocturn, a service held in the night; Lat. nocturnus.

NOISOME, Ps. 91. 3, destroying, destructive.

People savage, wild and noysome. More's Utopia, p. 22. From annoy; O.Fr. anoi, enui ( mod. ennui).

NOVICE, xxvII.( Bishops, e), a neophyte, a recent convert; Fr. novice; Lat. novitium, newly ar­rived.

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OBLATION, Ps. 51. 19, whole burnt offering( R.V.)= Heb. kalil, the whole, a sacrifice of which the whole is burned. xv.,' alms and oblations; the word oblations' probably refers to the bread and wine just placed upon the table, as well as to any other offerings made at this time; xxIx. 31,' the one Oblation of Christ,' the Offer­ing; Lat. oblatio( Vulg.).

OCCUPY, Ps. 107. 23,' which occupy their business,' do business; so R.V.

All the ships of the sea were in thee to occupie thy marchandise.

Geneva, Ezek. 27. 9. O. Fr. occuper; Lat. occupare ( Vulg.).

OF, XII., Father of heaven,' from heaven Lat. de cælis. xv.( Ni­cene Creed), Light of Light,' Light out of Light- Pós ek duros. OFFEND, St. Mich. g, to cause to stumble; so R.V.; Lat. offendere, to stumble, to offend.

OFFERTORY, xv., those verses of Scripture appointed to be read in the Communion Service while the people are offering.' Hence sometimes the alms then collected are popularly called the' Offer­

tory.' Eccles. Lat. offertorium. See Dict. of Christian Antiqui­ties( s.v.).

OFFICE, XVII. r,' Office for Private Baptism,' the service appointed for a particular occasion; Eccles. Lat. officium, public prayers.

OLD MAN, 6 Tr. e; 19 Tr. e. the former self before the new birth = ὀ παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος.

OPERATION, xv.,' by the operation of the Holy Ghost,' the working; Lat. operatio( Vulg.).

OR EVER, Ps. 58. 8, before; or= ere; O.E.@er, before( Dan. 6. 24).

Or ever I had seen that day. Shaks, Haml. i. 2. 183. ORACLES, S. a. As. e,' oracles of God'= Aóyia, a word used by the Greeks for the solemn utterances of the priestess at Delphi, and thus in the N.T. employed for any answer from God.

Who received the livelie oracles to give unto us. Geneva, Acts 7. 38. ORDERED, TO BE, xxIx. 36, to be admitted to Holy Orders.

ORDERS, XXVII.( Preface), Orders

of Ministers.' In early Church history the clergy were known col­lectively by the name of Ordo, a term of frequent occurrence for a municipal senate, or for the com­mittee of an association.

ORDINARY, xv. r,' the Ordinary of the place,' that person who has ecclesiastical jurisdiction, mostly the Bishop of the diocese; Eccles. Lat. ordinarius.

ORDINATION, xxvII.( Preface), the act of ordaining; Eccles. Lat. ordinatio, an appointing to office.

OTHER, III., and Ps. 49. 10, others;

so R.V.

They by their example provoke other to work. More's Utopia, p. 83.

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PAMPHLET, I., a small work on some question of the day. Cp. Low Lat. panfletus( Philobiblon R. de Bury, p. 68, ed. 1888).

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