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Oblation
OBLA’TION, noun [Latin oblatio, from offero; ob and fero, to bear or bring.]
Any thing offered or presented in worship or sacred service; an offering; a sacrifice.
Bring no more vain oblations. Isaiah 1:13.
Oblivion
OBLIV’ION, noun [Latin oblivio.]
1. Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance.
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
2. A forgetting of offenses, or remission of punishment. An act of oblivion is an amnesty, or general pardon of crimes and offenses, granted by a sovereign, by which punishment is remitted.
Obsequious
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ORDINANCE
OR’DINANCE, noun
1. A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action. An ordinance may be a law or statute of sovereign power. In this sense it is often used in the Scriptures. Exodus 15:25. Numbers 10:8. Ezra 3:10. It may also signify a decree, edict or rescript, and the word has sometimes been applied to the statutes of Parliament, but these are usually called acts or laws. In the United States, it is never applied to the acts of Congress, or of a state legislature.
2. Observance commanded.
3. Appointment.
4. Established rite or ceremony. Hebrews 9:1. In this sense, baptism and the Lord’s supper are denominated ordinances.
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OBSEQUIES
OB’SEQUIES, noun plural [Latin obsequium, complaisance, from obsequor, to follow.]
Funeral rites & solemnities; the last duties performed to a deceased person.
[Milton uses the word in the singular, but the common usage is different.]
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.OBSE’QUIOUS, adjective [from Latin obsequium, complaisance, from obsequor, to follow; ob and sequor.]
1. Promptly obedient or submissive to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of others, properly to the will or command of a superior, but in actual use, it often signifies yielding to the will or desires of such as have no right to control.
His servants weeping, obsequious to his orders, bear him hither.
2. Servilely or meanly condescending; compliant to excess; as an obsequious flatterer, minion or parasite.
3. Funereal; pertaining to funeral rites. [Not used.]
OFFERING
OF’FERING, participle present tense Presenting; proposing; sacrificing; bidding; presenting to the eye or mind.
OF’FERING, noun That which is presented in divine service; an animal or a portion of bread or corn, or of gold and silver, or other valuable articles, presented to God as an atonement for sin, or as a return of thanks for his favors, or for other religious purpose; a sacrifice; an oblation. In the Mosaic economy, there were burnt-offerings, sin-offerings, peace-offerings, trespass-offerings, thank-offerings, wave-offerings, and wood-offerings. Pagan nations also present offerings to their deities. Christ by the offering of himself has superseded the use of all other offerings, having made atonement for all men.
When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed – Isaiah 53:10.