Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter O - Page 5
Obstetric (a.) Alt. of Obstetrical.
Obstetrical (a.) Of or pertaining to midwifery, or the delivery of women in childbed; as, the obstetric art.
Obstetrical (a.) Of or pertaining to obstetrics; as, the obstetric unit of a hospital.
Obstetrical toad (Zool.), A European toad of the genus Alytes, especially Alytes obstetricans. The eggs are laid in a string which the male winds around his legs, and carries about until the young are hatched.
Obstetric (a.) Of or relating to or used in or practicing obstetrics; "obstetric hospital" [syn: obstetric, obstetrical].
Obstetricate (v. i.) To perform the office of midwife. [Obs.] "Nature does obstetricate." -- Evelyn.
Obstetricate (v. t.) To assist as a midwife. [Obs.] -- E. Waterhouse.
Obstetrication (n.) The act of assisting as a midwife; delivery. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Obstetrician (n.) One skilled in obstetrics; an accoucheur; especially, a physician who specializes in obstetrics.
Obstetrician (n.) A physician specializing in obstetrics [syn: obstetrician, accoucheur].
Obstetricious (a.) Serving to assist childbirth; obstetric; hence, facilitating any bringing forth or deliverance. [Obs.]
Yet is all human teaching but maieutical, or obstetricious. -- Cudworth.
Obstetrics (n.) The science of midwifery. [archaic]
Obstetrics (n.) The branch of medicine that deals with childbirth or the care of women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth.
Obstetrics (n.) The branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother [syn: obstetrics, OB, tocology, midwifery].
Obstetricy (n.) Obstetrics. [Obs.] -- Dunglison.
Obstinacy (n.) 頑固，固執；頑強 [U]；（病痛等的）難治，難解除 [U] A fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that can not be shaken at all, or only with great difficulty; firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose, or system; unyielding disposition; stubborness; pertinacity; persistency; contumacy.
You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract. -- Shak.
To shelter their ignorance, or obstinacy, under the obscurity of their terms. -- Locke.
Obstinacy (n.) The quality or state of being difficult to remedy, relieve, or subdue; as, the obstinacy of a disease or evil.
Syn: Pertinacity; firmness; resoluteness; inflexibility; persistency; stubbornness; perverseness; contumacy.
Usage: {Obstinacy}, {Pertinacity}. Pertinacity denotes great firmness in holding to a thing, aim, etc. Obstinacy is great firmness in holding out against persuasion, attack, etc. The former consists in adherence, the latter in resistance. An opinion is advocated with pertinacity or defended with obstinacy. Pertinacity is often used in a good sense; obstinacy generally in a bad one. "In this reply was included a very gross mistake, and if with pertinacity maintained, a capital error." -- Sir T. Browne. "Every degree of obstinacy in youth is one step to rebellion." -- South.
Obstinacy (n.) The trait of being difficult to handle or overcome [syn: {stubbornness}, {obstinacy}, {obstinance}, {mulishness}].
Obstinacy (n.) Resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires [syn: {stubbornness}, {bullheadedness}, {obstinacy}, {obstinance}, {pigheadedness}, {self-will}].
Obstinate (a.) 頑固的，固執的；頑強的，不屈服的；（疾病等）難治的；難以控制 Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
I have known great cures done by obstinate resolution of drinking no wine. -- Sir W. Temple.
No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate. -- Pope.
Of sense and outward things. -- Wordsworth.
Obstinate (a.) Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions.
Syn: Stubborn; inflexible; immovable; firm; pertinacious; persistent; headstrong; opinionated; unyielding; refractory; contumacious. See {Stubborn}. -- {Ob"sti*nate*ly}, adv. -- {Ob"sti*nate*ness}, n.
Obstinate (a.) Tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield [syn: {stubborn}, {obstinate}, {unregenerate}] [ant: {docile}].
Obstinate (a.) Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing [syn: {cussed}, {obdurate}, {obstinate}, {unrepentant}]
Obstinate (a.) Resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior" [syn: {contrary}, {obstinate}, {perverse}, {wayward}].
Obstinate (v.) Persist stubbornly; "he obstinates himself against all rational arguments."
Obstinate (a.) Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal.
Obstinate (a.) 頑固的，固執的；倔強的 Unreasonably determined, especially to act in a particular way and not to change at all, despite what anyone else says.
// He can be very obstinate at times.
// Her obstinate refusal to compromise.
Obstinate (a.) [ Before noun ] 棘手的；難以清除的；難以克服的 Used to describe a problem, situation, or thing that is difficult to deal with, remove, or defeat.
// Obstinate weeds.
Invading troops met with obstinate resistance by guerrilla forces.
Obstination (n.) 固執，執拗，頑固；頑強 Obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.] -- Jer. Taylor.
Obstipation (n.) The act of stopping up, as a passage. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Obstipation (n.) Obstinacy; perversity; obduracy.
Obstipation (n.) (Med.) 【醫】【廢】頑性便秘 Extreme constipation. [Obs.] -- Hooper.
Obstipation (n.) Severe constipation resulting from an obstruction in the intestines.
Compare: Obstinacy
Obstinacy (n. pl. - cies) (or Obstinateness) 倔強，頑固，固執 The state or quality of being stubborn or refractory.
Compare: Obstinacy
Obstinacy (n.) The act or an instance of being stubborn or refractory.
Compare: Stubbornness
Stubbornness (n.) 頑固，倔強，頑強 Dogged determination not to change one's attitude or position on something.
// His error was sheer stubbornness in refusing to admit a mistake.
Obstreperous (a.) 吵鬧的，喧囂的，亂鬧的，任性的 Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; clamorous; noisy; vociferous. "The obstreperous city." -- Wordsworth. "Obstreperous approbation." -- Addison.
Beating the air with their obstreperous beaks. -- B. Jonson.
Obstreperous (a.) Resistant to control; unruly. -- {Ob*strep"er*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ob*strep"er*ous*ness}, n.
Obstreperous (a.) Noisily and stubbornly defiant; "obstreperous boys."
Obstreperous (a.) Boisterously and noisily aggressive; "kept up an obstreperous clamor."
Obstriction (n.) The state of being constrained, bound, or obliged; that which constrains or obliges; obligation; bond. [R.] -- Milton.
Compare: Obligation
Obligation (n.) （道義上或法律上的）義務；責任 [C] [U] [（+to）] [+to-v]； 恩惠 [C] [（+to/ toward）] The act of obligating.
Obligation (n.) That which obligates or constrains; the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law; that which constitutes legal or moral duty.
A tender conscience is a stronger obligation than a proson. -- Fuller.
Obligation (n.) Any act by which a person becomes bound to do something to or for another, or to forbear something; external duties imposed by law, promise, or contract, by the relations of society, or by courtesy, kindness, etc.
Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligation, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions. -- Whewell.
Obligation (n.) The state of being obligated or bound; the state of being indebted for an act of favor or kindness; -- often used with under to indicate being in that state; as, to place others under obligations to one.
Obligation (n.) (Law) A bond with a condition annexed, and a penalty for nonfulfillment. In a larger sense, it is an acknowledgment of a duty to pay a certain sum or do a certain things.
Days of obligation. See under Day.
Under obligation, Under an obligation. In a state of obligation [4].
Obligation (n.) The social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty" -- John D.Rockefeller Jr [syn: duty, responsibility, obligation].
Obligation (n.) The state of being obligated to do or pay something; "he is under an obligation to finish the job."
Obligation (n.) A personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor [syn: obligation, indebtedness].
Obligation (n.) A written promise to repay a debt [syn: debt instrument, obligation, certificate of indebtedness].
Obligation (n.) A legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply.
Obligation (n.) In its general and most extensive sense, obligation is synonymous with duty. In a more technical meaning, it is a tie which binds us to pay or to do something agreeably to the laws and customs of the country in which the obligation is made. Just. Inst. 1. 3, t. 14. The term obligation also signifies the instrument or writing by which the contract is witnessed. And in another sense, an obligation still subsists, although the civil obligation is said to be a bond containing a penalty, with a condition annexed for the payment of money, performance of covenants or the like; it differs from a bill, which is generally without a penalty or condition, though it may be obligatory. Co. Litt. 172. It is also defined to be a deed whereby a man binds himself under a penalty to do a thing. Com. Dig. Obligation, A. The word obligation, in its most technical signification, ex vi termini, imports a sealed instrument. 2 S. & R. 502; 6 Vern. 40; 1 Blackf. 241; Harp. R. 434; 2 Porter, 19; 1 Bald. 129. See 1 Bell's Com. b. 3, p. 1, c. 1, page 293; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Obligation (n.) Obligations are divided into imperfect obligations, and perfect obligations.
Obligation (n.) Imperfect obligations are those which are not binding on us as between man and man, and for the non-performance of which we are accountable to God only; such as charity or gratitude. In this sense an obligation is a mere duty. Poth. Ob. art. Prel. n. 1.
Obligation (n.) A perfect obligation is one which gives a right to another to require us to give him something or not to do something. These obligations are either natural or moral, or they are civil.
Obligation (n.) A natural or moral obligation is one which cannot be enforced by action, but which is binding on the party who makes it, in conscience and according to natural justice. As for instance, when the action is barred by the act of limitation, a natural obligation is extinguished. 5 Binn. 573. Although natural obligations cannot be enforced by action, they have the following effect: 1. No suit will lie to recover back what has been paid, or given in compliance with a natural obligation. 1 T. R. 285; 1 Dall. 184, 2. A natural obligation is a sufficient consideration for a new contract. 5 Binn. 33; 2 Binn. 591; Yelv. 41, a, n. 1; Cowp. 290; 2 Bl. Com. 445; 3 B. & P. 249, n.; 2 East, 506; 3 Taunt. 311; 5 Taunt. 36; Yelv. 41, b. note; 3 Pick. 207 Chit. Contr. 10.
Obligation (n.) A civil obligation is one which has a binding operation in law, vinculum juris, and which gives to the obligee the right of enforcing it in a court of justice; in other words, it is an engagement binding on the obligor. 12 Wheat. It:. 318, 337; 4 Wheat. R. 197.
Obligation (n.) Civil obligations are divided into express and implied, pure. and conditional, primitive and secondary, principal and accessory, absolute and alternative, determinate and indeterminate, divisible and indivisible, single and penal, and joint and several. They are also purely personal, purely real, and both real and mixed at the same time.
Obligation (n.) Express or conventional obligations are those by which the obligor binds himself in express terms to perform his obligation.
Obligation (n.) An implied obligation is one which arises by operation of law; as, for example, if I send you daily a loaf of bread, without any express authority, and you make use of it in your family, the law raises an obligation on your part to pay me the value of the bread.
Obligation (n.) A pure or simple obligation is one which is not suspended by any condition, either because it has been contacted without condition, or, having been contracted with one, it has been fulfilled.
Obligation (n.) A conditional obligation is one the execution of which is suspended by a condition which has not been accomplished, and subject to which it has been contracted.
Obligation (n.) A primitive obligation, which in one sense may also be called a principal obligation, is one which is contracted with a design that it should, itself, be the first fulfilled.
Obligation (n.) A secondary obligation is one which is contrasted, and is to be performed, in case the primitive cannot be. For example, if I sell you my house, I bind myself to give a title, but I find I cannot, as the title is in another, then my secondary obligation is to pay you damages for my non-performance of my obligation.
Obligation (n.) A principal obligation is one which is the most important object of the engagement of the contracting parties.
Obligation (n.) An accessory obligation is one which is dependent on the principal obligation; for example, if I sell you a house and lot of ground, the principal obligation on my part is to make you a title for it; the accessory obligation is to deliver you all the title papers which I have relating to it; to take care of the estate till it is delivered to you, and the like.
Obligation (n.) An absolute obligation is one which gives no alternative to the obligor, but he is bound to fulfill it according to his engagement.
Obligation (n.) An alternative obligation is, where a person engages to do, or to give several things in such a manner that the payment of one will acquit him of all; as if A agrees to give B, upon a sufficient consideration, a horse, or one hundred dollars. Poth. Obl. Pt. 2, c. 3, art. 6, No.. 245.
Obligation (n.) In order to constitute an alternative obligation, it is necessary that two or more things should be promised disjunctively; where they are promised conjunctively, there are as many obligations as the things which are enumerated, but where they are in the alternative, though they are all due, there is but one obligation, which may be discharged by the payment of any of them.
Obligation (n.) The choice of performing one of the obligations belongs to the obligor, unless it is expressly agreed that all belong to the creditor. Dougl. 14; 1 Lord Raym. 279; 4 N. S. 167. If one of the acts is prevented by the obligee, or the act of God, the obligor is discharged from both. See 2 Evans' Poth. Ob. 52 to 54; Vin. Ab. Condition, S b; and articles Conjunctive; Disjunctive; Election.
Obligation (n.) A determinate obligation, is one which has for its object a certain thing; as an obligation to deliver a certain horse named Bucephalus. In this case the obligation can only be discharged by delivering the identical horse.
Obligation (n.) An indeterminate obligation is one where the obligor binds himself to deliver one of a certain species; as, to deliver a horse, the delivery of any horse will discharge the obligation.
Obligation (n.) A divisible obligation is one which being a unit may nevertheless be lawfully divided with or without the consent of the parties. It is clear it may be divided by consent, as those who made it, may modify or change it as they please. But some obligations may be divided without the consent of the obligor; as, where a tenant is bound to pay two hundred dollars a year rent to his landlord, the obligation is entire, yet, if his landlord dies and leaves two sons, each will be entitled to one hundred dollars; or if the landlord sells one undivided half of the estate yielding the rent, the purchaser will be entitled to receive one hundred dollars, and the seller the other hundred. See Apportionment.
Obligation (n.) An indivisible obligation is one which is not susceptible of division; as, for example, if I promise to pay you one hundred dollars, you cannot assign one half of this to another, so as to give him a right of action against me for his share. See Divisible.
Obligation (n.) A single obligation is one without any penalty; as, where I simply promise to pay you one hundred dollars. This is called a single bill, when it is under seal.
Obligation (n.) A penal obligation is one to which is attached a penal clause which is to be enforced, if the principal obligation be not performed. In general equity will relieve against a penalty, on the fulfillment of the principal obligation. See Liquidated damages; Penalty.
Obligation (n.) A joint obligation is one by which several obligors promise to the obligee to perform the obligation. When the obligation is only joint and the obligors do not promise separately to fulfill their engagement they must be all sued, if living, to compel the performance; or, if any be dead, the survivors must all be sued. See Parties to actions.
Obligation (n.) A several obligation is one by which one individual, or if there be more, several individuals bind themselves separately to perform the engagement. In this case each obligor may be sued separately, and if one or more be dead, their respective executors may be sued. See Parties to actions.
Obligation (n.) The obligation is, purely personal when the obligor binds himself to do a thing; as if I give my note for one thousand dollars, in that case my person only is bound, for my property is liable for the debt only while it belongs to me, and, if I lawfully transfer it to a third person, it is discharged.
Obligation (n.) The obligation is personal in another sense, as when the obligor binds himself to do a thing, and he provides his heirs and executors shall not be bound; as, for example, when he promises to pay a certain sum yearly during his life, and the payment is to cease at his death.
Obligation (n.) The obligation is real when real estate, and not the person, is liable to the obligee for the performance. A familiar example will explain this: when an estate owes an easement, as a right of way, it is the thing and not the owner who owes the easement. Another instance occurs when a person buys an estate which has been mortgaged, subject to the mortgage, he is not liable for the debt, though his estate is. In these cases the owner has an interest only because he is seised of the servient estate, or the mortgaged premises, and he may discharge himself by abandoning or parting with the property.
Obligation (n.) The obligation is both personal and real when the obligor has bound himself, and pledged his estate for the fulfillment of his obligation.
Obstringe (v. t.) To constrain; to put under obligation. [R.] -- Bp. Gardiner.
Obstructed (imp. & p. p.) of Obstruct.
Obstructed (a.) 阻塞的 Shut off to passage or view or hindered from action; "a partially obstructed passageway"; "an obstructed view"; "justice obstructed is not justice" [ant: {unobstructed}].
Obstructing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obstruct.
Obstruct (v. t.) 阻塞，堵塞；妨礙，阻擾，阻止；擋住（視線），遮住 To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street; to obstruct the channels of the body.
'T is the obstructed paths of sound shall clear. -- Pope.
Obstruct (v. t.) To be, or come, in the way of; to hinder from passing; to stop; to impede; to retard; as, the bar in the harbor obstructs the passage of ships; clouds obstruct the light of the sun; unwise rules obstruct legislation.
"Th' impatience of obstructed love." -- Johnson.
Syn: To bar; barricade; stop; arrest; check; interrupt; clog; choke; impede; retard; embarrass; oppose.
Obstruct (v. i.) 設障礙 Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; "His brother blocked him at every turn" [syn: {obstruct}, {blockade}, {block}, {hinder}, {stymie}, {stymy}, {embarrass}].
Obstruct (v.) Block passage through; "obstruct the path" [syn: {obstruct}, {obturate}, {impede}, {occlude}, {jam}, {block}, {close up}] [ant: {disengage}, {free}].
Obstruct (v.) Shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight; "The thick curtain blocked the action on the stage"; "The trees obstruct my view of the mountains" [syn: {obstruct}, {block}].
Obstructer (n.) 妨礙者；障礙物 One who obstructs or hinders.
Obstructer (n.) Someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take [syn: {obstructionist}, {obstructor}, {obstructer}, {resister}, {thwarter}].
Obstructer (n.) Any structure that makes progress difficult [syn: {obstruction}, {obstructor}, {obstructer}, {impediment}, {impedimenta}].
Obstruction (n.) 阻礙，妨礙；阻塞 [U]；阻塞物；障礙 [C] The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
Obstruction (n.) That which obstructs or impedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance.
A popular assembly free from obstruction. -- Swift.
Obstruction (n.) The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death. [Poetic]
To die, and go we know not where, To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot. -- Shak.
Syn: {Obstacle}; bar; barrier; impediment; clog; check; hindrance.
Usage: {Obstruction}, {Obstacle}. The difference between these words is that indicated by their etymology; an obstacle is something standing in the way; an obstruction is something put in the way. Obstacle implies more fixedness and is the stronger word. We remove obstructions; we surmount obstacles.
Disparity in age seems a greater obstacle to an intimate friendship than inequality of fortune. -- Collier.
The king expected to meet with all the obstructions and difficulties his enraged enemies could lay in his way. -- Clarendon.
Obstruction (n.) Any structure that makes progress difficult [syn: {obstruction}, {obstructor}, {obstructer}, {impediment}, {impedimenta}].
Obstruction (n.) The physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction [syn: {obstruction}, {blockage}].
Obstruction (n.) Something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted; "lack of imagination is an obstacle to one's advancement"; "the poverty of a district is an obstacle to good education"; "the filibuster was a major obstruction to the success of their plan" [syn: {obstacle}, {obstruction}].
Obstruction (n.) The act of obstructing; "obstruction of justice."
Obstruction (n.) Getting in someone's way.
Obstruction (n.) [ C or U ] 廢棄的；過時的；淘汰的；老化的 Something that blocks a road, passage, entrance, etc. so that nothing can go along it, or the act of blocking something in this way.
// There's some kind of obstruction on the railway tracks.
Obstruction (n.) [ U ] 妨礙、阻撓某事發生或正常運行的動作或行為 Behaviour or actions that prevent something from happening or working correctly.
// They were charged with obstruction of the police/ of justice (= preventing the police/ law courts from doing their jobs).
Obstruction (n.) [ U ] （體育項目中的）阻擋犯規 In sport an occasion when one player gets in the way of another and so prevents them from moving freely.
// The referee said it was obstruction.
Obstructionism (n.) 蓄意阻撓（尤指在立法機關中的阻撓議事）[U] The act or the policy of obstructing progress. -- Lond. Lit. World.
Obstructionism (n.) Deliberate interference.
Obstructionism (n.) [ U ] (Formal) (Disapproving) 蓄意阻撓 The act of intentionally stopping or slowing down an official process.
Obstructionist (n.) [C] 蓄意阻撓者 One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body.
Obstructionist (a.) 蓄意阻撓（者）的，（在立法機關中）阻撓議事（者）的 Of or pertaining to obstructionists; causing obstruction; as, obstructionist tactics. [Recent]
Obstructionist (n.) Someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take [syn: obstructionist, obstructor, obstructer, resister, thwarter].
Obstructive (a.) Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment. -- Ob*struct"ive*ly, adv.
Obstructive (n.) 妨礙者；障礙物 An obstructive person or thing.
Obstructive (a.) Preventing movement; "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street" [syn: clogging, hindering, impeding, obstructive].
Obstructive (a.) (Disapproving) 有意妨礙的，蓄意阻撓的；刁難的 Trying to stop someone from doing something by causing problems for them.
// We'd have made a decision by now if Jean hadn't been so obstructive.
Obstruent (a.) 【醫】阻塞的；阻塞體內管道的 Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering; as, an obstruent medicine. -- Johnson.
Obstruent (n.) 【醫】阻塞物（如腎結石）；收斂藥 Anything that obstructs or closes a passage; esp., that which obstructs natural passages in the body; as, a medicine which acts as an obstruent.
Obstruent (n.) A consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth.
Obstupefaction (n.) See Stupefaction. [Obs.] -- Howell.
Obstupefactive (a.) Stupefactive. [Obs.]
Obstupefy (v. t.) See Stupefy. [Obs.]
Obtained (imp. & p. p.) of Obtain.
Obtaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obtain.
Obtain (v. t.) To hold; to keep; to possess. [Obs.]
His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of heaven. -- Milton.
Obtain (v. t.) To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way.
Some pray for riches; riches they obtain. -- Dryden.
By guileful fair words peace may be obtained. -- Shak.
It may be that I may obtain children by her. -- Gen. xvi. 2.
Syn: To attain; gain; procure; acquire; win; earn.
Usage: See Attain. -- To Obtain, Get, Gain, Earn, Acquire. The idea of getting is common to all these terms. We may, indeed, with only a slight change of sense, substitute get for either of them; as, to get or to gain a prize; to get or to obtain an employment; to get or to earn a living; to get or to acquire a language. To gain is to get by striving; and as this is often a part of our good fortune, the word gain is peculiarly applicable to whatever comes to us fortuitously. Thus, we gain a victory, we gain a cause, we gain an advantage, etc. To earn is to deserve by labor or service; as, to earn good wages; to earn a triumph. Unfortunately, one does not always get or obtain what he has earned. To obtain implies desire for possession, and some effort directed to the attainment of that which is not immediately within our reach. Whatever we thus seek and get, we obtain, whether by our own exertions or those of others; whether by good or bad means; whether permanently, or only for a time. Thus, a man obtains an employment; he obtains an answer to a letter, etc. To acquire is more limited and specific. We acquire what comes to us gradually in the regular exercise of our abilities, while we obtain what comes in any way, provided we desire it. Thus, we acquire knowledge, property, honor, reputation, etc. What we acquire becomes, to a great extent, permanently our own; as, to acquire a language; to acquire habits of industry, etc.
Obtain (v. i.) To gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer.
Sobriety hath by use obtained to signify temperance in drinking. -- Jer. Taylor.
The Theodosian code, several hundred years after Justinian's time, did obtain in the western parts of Europe. -- Baker.
Obtain (v. i.) To prevail; to succeed. [archaic and Rare] -- Evelyn.
So run that ye may obtain. -- 1 Cor. ix. 24.
There is due from the judge to the advocate, some commendation, where causes are fair pleaded; especially towards the side which obtaineth not. -- Bacon.
Obtain (v.) Come into possession of; "How did you obtain the visa?"
Obtain (v.) Receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" [syn: receive, get, find, obtain, incur].
Obtain (v.) Be valid, applicable, or true; "This theory still holds" [syn: prevail, hold, obtain].
Obtainable (a.) Capable of being obtained.
Obtainable (a.) Capable of being obtained; "savings of up to 50 percent are obtainable" [syn: gettable, getable, obtainable, procurable].
Obtainer (n.) One who obtains.
Obtainment (n.) The act or process of obtaining; attainment. -- Milton.
Obtainment (n.) The act of obtaining [syn: obtainment, obtention].
Obtected (a.) Covered; protected. [Obs.]
Obtected (a.) (Zool.) Covered with a hard chitinous case, as the pupa of certain files ; also called obtect.
Obtemper (v. t. & i.) (Scots Law) To obey (a judgment or decree).
Obtemperate (v. t.) To obey. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Obtended (imp. & p. p.) of Obtend.
Obtending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obtend.
Obtend (v. t.) To oppose; to hold out in opposition. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Obtend (v. t.) To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. [Obs.] -- Dryden
Obtenebration (n.) The act of darkening; the state of being darkened; darkness. [Obs.]
In every megrim or vertigo, there is an obtenebration joined with a semblance of turning round. -- Bacon.
Obtension (n.) The act of obtending. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Obtest (v. i.) To protest. [R.] -- E. Waterhouse.
Obtested (imp. & p. p.) of Obtest.
Obtesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obtest.
Obtest (v. t.) To call to witness; to invoke as a witness. [R.] -- Dryden.
Obtest (v. t.) To beseech; to supplicate; to beg for. [R.]
Obtestation (n.) The act of obtesting; supplication; protestation. [R.]
Antonio asserted this with great obtestation. -- Evelyn.
Obtrectation (n.) Slander; detraction; calumny. [Obs.] -- Barrow.
Obtruded (imp. & p. p.) of Obtrude.
Obtruding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obtrude.
Obtrude (v. t.) To thrust impertinently; to present to a person without warrant or solicitation; as, to obtrude one's self upon a company; to obtrude one's opinion on another.
The objects of our senses obtrude their particular ideas upon our minds, whether we will or no. -- Lock.
Obtrude (v. t.) To offer with unreasonable importunity; to urge unduly or against the will. -- Milton.
Obtrude (v. i.) To thrust one's self upon a company or upon attention; to intrude.
Syn: To Obtrude, Intrude.
Usage: To intrude is to thrust one's self into a place, society, etc., without right, or uninvited; to obtrude is to force one's self, remarks, opinions, etc., into society or upon persons with whom one has no such intimacy as to justify such boldness.
Obtrude (v.) Push to thrust outward [syn: push out, obtrude, thrust out].
Obtrude (v.) Thrust oneself in as if by force; "The colors don't intrude on the viewer" [syn: intrude, obtrude].
Obtruder (n.) One who obtrudes. -- Boyle.
Obtruncate (v. t.) To deprive of a limb; to lop. [R.]
Obtruncation (n.) The act of lopping or cutting off. [R.] -- Cockeram.
Obtrusion (n.) The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world.
Obtrusion (n.) That which is obtruded. -- Milton.
Obtrusionist (n.) One who practices or excuses obtrusion. [R.] -- Gent. Mag.
Obtrusive (a.) Disposed to obtrude; inclined to intrude or thrust one's self or one's opinions upon others, or to enter uninvited; forward; pushing; intrusive. -- Ob*tru"sive*ly, adv. -- Ob*tru"sive*ness, n.
Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retired. -- Milton.
Obtrusive (a.) Undesirably noticeable; "the obtrusive behavior of a spoiled child"; "equally obtrusive was the graffiti" [syn: obtrusive, noticeable] [ant: unnoticeable, unobtrusive].
Obtrusive (a.) Sticking out; protruding.
Obtunded (imp. & p. p.) of Obtund.
Obtunding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obtund.
Obtund (v. t.) To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall. [Archaic] -- Harvey.
They . . . have filled all our law books with the obtunding story of their suits and trials. -- Milton.
Obtund (v.) Reduce the edge or violence of; "obtunded reflexes."
Obtundent (n.) (Med.) A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly the same as demulcent. -- Forsyth.
Obtundent (a.) 使遲鈍的，使緩和的 Blunting irritation or lessening pain.
Obtundent (n.) 止痛藥；緩和劑；止痛劑 An agent that blunts pain or dulls sensibility.
Obtunder (n.) (Med.) That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility.
Obturation (n.) The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening. "Deaf by an outward obturation." -- Bp. Hall.
Obturator (n.) That which closes or stops an opening.
Obturator (n.) (Surg.) An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.
Obturator (n.) (Ordnance) Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check.
Obturator (n.) (Photog.) A camera shutter.
Obturator (a.) (Anat.) Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator foramen; as, the obturator nerve.
Obturator foramen (Anat.), An opening situated between the public and ischial parts of the innominate bone and closed by the obturator membrane; the thyroid foramen.
Obturator (n.) A prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate).
Obtusangular (a.) See Obstuseangular.
Compare: Obtuse-angled
Obtuse-angled, obtuse-angular (a.) Having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle.
Obtuse (a.) 鈍的；愚鈍的 Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.
Obtuse (a.) Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses. -- Milton.
Obtuse (a.) Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound. -- Johnson. Obtuse-angled
Obtuse (a.) Of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees [ant: {acute}].
Obtuse (a.) (Of a leaf shape) Rounded at the apex.
Obtuse (a.) Lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin [syn: {obtuse}, {purblind}].
Obtuse (a.) Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [syn: {dense}, {dim}, {dull}, {dumb}, {obtuse}, {slow}].
Obtuse (a.) Obtuser, Obtusest, -- Obtusely (adv.)
Obtuseness (n.), Stupid or unintelligent : not able to think clearly or to understand what is obvious or simple.
Obtuse (a.) Mathematics : Not ending in a sharp point : measuring between 90 degrees and 180 degrees.
Obtuse (a.) Not pointed or acute : Blunt.
Obtuse (a.) Of an angle : exceeding 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees (2) : having an obtuse angle <an obtuse triangle> -- see Triangle illustration.
Obtuse (a.) Of a leaf : Rounded at the free end.
Obtuse (a.) Lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility or intellect : Insensitive, Stupid.
Obtuse (a.) Difficult to comprehend : not clear or precise in thought or expression.
Obtuse-angled (a.) Alt. of obtuse-angular.
Obtuse-angular (a.) Having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle.
Obtusely (adv.) In an obtuse manner.
Obtusely (adv.) In a stupid manner; "he had so rapaciously desired and so obtusely expected to find her alone" [syn: dumbly, densely, obtusely].
Obtuseness (n.) State or quality of being obtuse.
Obtuseness (n.) The quality of being slow to understand [syn: dullness, obtuseness].
Obtuseness (n.) The quality of lacking a sharp edge or point [ant: acuteness].
Obtusion (n.) The act or process of making obtuse or blunt.
Obtusion (n.) The state of being dulled or blunted; as, the obtusion of the senses. -- Harvey.
Obtusity (n.) Obtuseness. -- Lond. Quart. Rev.
Obumbrant (a.) (Zool.) Overhanging; as, obumbrant feathers.
Obumbrate (v. t.) To shade; to darken; to cloud. [R.] -- Howell.
Obumbration (n.) Act of darkening or obscuring. [R.] -- Sir T. More.
Obuncous (a.) Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree. -- Maunder.
Obvention (n.) The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering. [Obs.] "Tithes and other obventions." -- Spenser.
Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualities and obventions. -- Fuller.