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# The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick/The Life and Acts of St. Patrick/Chapter 59

Of the Magician Struck by Lightning, and of Twelve Thousand Men Converted unto Christ.
And after these things had come to pass, a great and solemn council was held in a solemn place by the people of that province gathered there together, whereat the seven sons of Amhlaich, a man eminent for his birth, his dignity, his riches, and his power, were present with a numerous train of their followers. Then the saint, that he might gain many of that multitude unto Christ, threw himself into the midst of the assembly, and took the spiritual armor of the power of God unto the extirpation of idolatry. But when this renowned preacher unsheathed the sword of the Spirit to the destruction of devils and the salvation of man, a certain magician named Rochait with all his strength endeavored to slay him. Lest, however, his wicked attempt should accomplish the yet more wicked deed, the hand of the Almighty, sending on him fire from above, consumed this child of hell, and smote him with lightning, even in the presence of all. And beholding this marvellous and fearful miracle, the seven sons of Amlaich, with twelve thousand of the people, believed in Christ, and were baptized, and constantly remained in the Catholic faith which they had taken on them. And the two daughters of a certain nobleman named Glerannus, who were then unborn, are said to have invoked the saint, and were with the rest converted unto Christ, and were baptized even in their mother's womb. And they afterward, living a holy and religious life, in a pious end rested in the Lord, and after their deaths proved by many miracles that they were with the saints in heaven. And Saint Patrick placed over this newly-converted people a prelate named Mancenus, and he was learned and religious, and well versed in the Holy Scriptures.
# The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick/The Life and Acts of St. Patrick/Chapter 54

Of Conallus, and of the Prophecy of Patrick concerning him.
And the saint, leaving those children of darkness in the anger and blindness of their hearts, and the depth of their error, turned his steps towards Conallus, who was to be the child of the truth. And he, rejoicing and giving thanks, received him as the angel of peace and of delight, and opened the ears of his hearing unto the words of salvation, and, through the laver of the regeneration and renovation of the Holy Spirit, deserved he to be incorporated with Christ. Whereby are we plainly showed that the Heavenly Potter out of the same clay can form at His will one vessel unto reproof and another unto honor. Then Conallus, being comforted and confirmed in the Catholic verity, offered unto the saint his dwelling-house, and his land, and his farm, and besought of him with many prayers that for the spreading of the Christian faith he there would build a city for him and for his people; and he said he would build a habitation for himself on the borders thereof. And the saint, praising so great charity in his novice, lest he should seem to reject his entreaty, builded there a city, which is now called Domnhach Phadruig—that is, the City of Patrick; and touching it with his staff, he marked out the dwelling-place of Conallus, which is now called Rathyr-tair. And the saint blessed him in the name of the Lord; and among other things which were to happen unto him, thus did he prophesy: "Happy and prosperous shall be this dwelling-place, and happy shall be they who dwell therein; nor shall the blood of any man, save only one, be shed in it; and the Lord, giving His blessing, shall bless thee, and He shall confirm thy throne and multiply thine empire, and the seed of thy brother shall serve thy seed for ever and ever." And all these things which the saint prophesied were not in the event disproved.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Oxytocics

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​ OX′YTO′CICS (from Gk. ὀξυτόκιον, oxytokion, medicine to facilitate quick delivery, from ὀξύς, oxys, sharp, quick, acid + τόκος, tokos, birth). Remedies which increase uterine contractions. The chief drugs of this class are ergot (q.v.) and quinine (q.v.). Ergot is the most widely known and used oxytocic, and was formerly employed to hasten labor, but it is now known that this practice is extremely dangerous, as it causes a tetanic instead of an intermittent contraction of the wall of the uterus and may lead to its rupture, an accident often fatal. It should never be given until the uterus has been emptied. In this way it is frequently given after labor, to cause contraction of the uterus and so prevent hemorrhage.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Oyer

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​ OYER, ō′yer (A.F., to hear). A term employed in common-law pleading to signify a demand by one party to an action, to hear read, or to have produced for inspection, a document to which the other party refers in his pleadings. Originally where a party based his claim or defense upon a deed, letters testamentary, or letters of administration, he was obliged to ‘make profert’ of the instrument, that is, allege that he produced it in court, whereupon the other party might ‘crave oyer,’ that is, demand to hear it read, in order that he might avail himself of its contents in his pleadings if he deemed it advisable. At a later date, instead of having it actually read in open court and spreading it upon the records, the party making profert was required to give the opposite party a true copy of the instrument.
In England and most of the United States the practice of requiring a pleader to make profert has been abolished, and with it the practice of demanding oyer, and instead a party referring to an instrument in a pleading is required to annex a true copy thereto. If it becomes necessary for a party to inspect a document in the hands of the other, he obtains an order to that effect from the court. See Evidence.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Oyez

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​ OYEZ, ō′yez (AF., OF., hear ye). An introductory word sometimes employed by court officers or criers in announcing the opening of court. It was introduced into England by the Normans, together with their other legal expressions and forms. The English translation ‘hear ye’ is still employed by most court criers in the United States.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Oyer and Terminer

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​ OYER AND TER′MINER (AF., to hear and to determine). In English law, a commission under the King's great seal appointing certain judges to hear and determine criminal causes in and for designated circuits. This commission was very ancient in its origin, it having first been employed some time after the reign of Edward III., the exact date not being certain. Before the Judicature Act (q.v.), the commissioners, as the judges so appointed were called, constituted the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The above act vested in the High Court of Justice all the powers formerly exercised by the Court of Oyer and Terminer, but its jurisdiction of criminal offenses is still dependent upon such a commission. A special commission is sometimes issued, authorizing the judges to try certain designated criminal cases out of the regular term.
The highest court of criminal jurisdiction in the State of New York was formerly known as the Court of Oyer and Terminer, but it derived its jurisdiction from the statutes creating it and not from a commission as was the case in England. It has been merged in the Supreme Court by the Constitution.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Owensboro

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OWENSBORO, ō'ĕnz-bŭr-ṓ. A city and the county-seat of Daviess County, Ky., 112 miles southwest of Louisville; on the Ohio River, and on the Louisville and Nashville, the Louisville, Henderson and Saint Louis, and the Illinois Central railroads (Map: Kentucky, D 3). It is the seat of the Owensboro Female College (non-sectarian), opened in 1890, and of Saint Francis Academy. Prominent features of the city are a fine United States Government building, the high school, the county jail, and the county court-house. Owensboro is surrounded by a farming and stock-raising country, and in the vicinity are valuable forests and deposits of coal, clay, building stone, iron, zinc, and lead ores. Oil wells are in operation hear the city. Owensboro has steamboat communication with important points on the river, and has developed extensive commercial interests, particularly in tobacco, being one of the largest leaf and strip tobacco markets in the United States. Its manufactures are extensive and varied. There are numerous tobacco factories, whisky and brandy distilleries, buggy, carriage, and wagon factories, a wheel factory, and a cellulose factory. The government, under a legislative charter, is vested in a mayor, who holds office for four years, and a council. Administrative officials are chosen by popular vote. The electric light plant is owned and operated by the city, and $200,000 has been appropriated for a new municipal water-works system. Population, in 1800, 9837; in 1900, 13,189.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Owlet-moth

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OWLET-MOTH. Any one of the night-flying moths of the family Noctuidæ. This is a large assemblage of moths of rather strikingly characteristic and rather uniform appearance, comprising in the United States more than 2100 species, which are almost without exception injurious to vegetation. The moths, as a rule, are of sombre colors, averaging perhaps 1.50 inch in wing expanse. The fore wings are comparatively narrow, rather short and stout, and crossed by a series of wavy lines, with two usually darker or paler spots near the centre of the wing. The hind wings are usually without markings, and when at rest are concealed by the fore wings, which overlap and cover them, either flat upon the back or roof-like. The body is large in proportion to the size of the wings. The thorax is heavy and quite stout, and in some species the scales on the upper surface are turned up, forming tufts. The abdomen is conical and extends beyond the inner angle of the hind wings when these are spread. The popular name, owlet-moth, is derived from the nocturnal habits of these insects, and from the fact that often when they are in obscurity their eyes shine brightly.
Some of the caterpillars are hairy, but the more typical ones are naked, and perhaps the most characteristic are the forms commonly known as cutworms (q.v.). They range from an inch to an inch and a half in length and have
dull colors, ranging from dirty gray to dirty brown with a few longitudinal stripes. They hide during the day a little behnv the surface of the ground and often at the base of the plants upon which they feed, and during the night come out to eat whatever vegetation they can find. The eggs are laid on trees, stones, or leaves, and the larvae hatch, as a rule, late in the summer, and pass the winter in a half-grown condition hidden beneath stones or logs or under the surface of the ground. In the spring they come out after this long fast and devour the new vegetation with avidity. Some of them will climb trees and are known as ‘climbing cutworms.’
The army-worm (q.v.) is a famous member of this family, as are also the wheat-head army-worm, the fall army-worm, the cotton caterpillar of the South, and the tomato-worm. The best remedy consists in ridding the land prepared for gardens before setting out the plants, by distributing here and there bunches of freshly cut grass or other vegetation which has previously been poisoned with Paris green.
Consult: Edwards, Standard Natural History, vol. ii. (Boston, 1884); Smith, Manual of Economic Entomology (Philadelphia, 1896); Comstock, Manual for the Study of Insects (Ithaca, 1895).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Oxyuris

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​ OX′YUR′IS (Neo-Lat., from Gk. ὀξύς, oxys, sharp, quick, acid + ὀυρά, oura, tail). A nematode worm belonging to the Ascaridæ, characterized by a fusiform shape and a rounded oval aperture. The variety vermicularis is the thread-worm or maw-worm found in the sigmoid flexure and in the rectum of human beings. In horses this worm is called the bot. The male is ⅛ inch, the female nearly ½ inch in length. See Anthelmintic.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Oyo

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​ OYO, ō′yō. The capital of the African State of Yoruba, now included in British Nigeria, situated about 90 miles northeast of Abeokuta (Map: Africa, E 4). It has an estimated population of 60,000, and its inhabitants are said to be intelligent and skillful in the crafts.
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# The New International Encyclopædia/Abbassides, The

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​ABBAS'SIDES, The (Ar. al-‘Abbasiyjah). Caliphs of Bagdad, and the most celebrated Moslem dynasty, although their rule never extended over the whole of Islam, as had that of the Ommiads (q.v.). It was never acknowledged in Spain and only nominally in Africa outside of Egypt. Theirs was, however, the true caliphate, notwithstanding the rival claims of Cordova. The Abbassides claimed descent from Abbas, the uncle and adviser of Mohammed (566-652 A.D.). The rivalry between the family of Abbas and the Ommiads broke out into open war. In 747 Ibrahim, the head of the Abbasside faction, was overthrown by the Caliph Merwan and put to death, but three years later his brother, Abu al-Abbas, who had proclaimed himself rightful Caliph, defeated Merwan in a great battle near the river Zab and established his line firmly on the throne. In Spain, however, Abd al-Rahman, one of the Ommiads, who had escaped from the general destruction of his house, succeeded in establishing the great independent emirate, or kingdom (subsequently caliphate) of Cordova. It was long before the rulers of Spain assumed the title of Caliph. The successor of Abu al-Abbas, Almansur, made Bagdad the capital of his empire. Under his followers the empire enjoyed comparative peace and attained to a splendid development. The caliphs became the patrons of literature, art, and learning, and their courts were the homes of the most extreme luxury. The caliphs Harun al-Rashid (786-809) and al-Mamun (813-833) were famous throughout the world for their wealth, their splendor, and their munificence. But the martial vigor of the Arabs was sapped by the influence of Persian luxury, and they gradually ceased to be relied upon for military service. In Africa and in the northeastern part of Persia, emirs seized the opportunity to declare themselves independent; in the west the Greek Empire showed a revival of energy; but the real danger came, as with the Roman Empire, from an alien soldiery. Mutasim (833-842) had formed a body-guard of Turks, and these in time seized upon the real powers of government. They assassinated Mutawakkil, the son of Mutasim, in 861, and in the following century forced the caliphs to delegate the chief powers of government to their commander. Gradually the empire of the Abassides became contracted, until it was finally narrowed down to Bagdad and the surrounding territory. In 1258 Hulaku Khan, the Mongol ruler of Persia, burned Bagdad and put the ruling Caliph to death. Deprived of all political power, the Abbassides found refuge with the Mameluke rulers of Egypt, who paid them respect as the spiritual heads of the Mohammedan world. The last of the Abbassides, Mutawakkil III., died in 1538 at Cairo, where he was living under the protection of the Turkish Sultan. Consult: Muir, The Caliphate (London, 1891); Syed Ameer Ali, A Short History of the Saracens (New York, 1899); and the more elaborate work, Weil, Geschichte der Chalifen (Mannheim and Stuttgart, 1846-62).
# The New International Encyclopædia/Abbot, Samuel

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​ABBOT, Samuel (1732-1812). An American philanthropist. He was born at Andover, Mass., and was one of the founders of the Andover Theological Seminary, to which he gave $20,000 in 1807 and $100,000 more in his will. He was a successful merchant of Boston and a large contributor to charities.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Aasen, Ivar Andreas

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​AASEN, a'sen, Ivar Andreas (1813-96). A Norwegian philologist. He was born, at Sond- more. "He at first studied botany, but subse- quently turned his attention to researches respecting the native dialects. Assisted by the Go'ernment, he traversed nearly the whole of Norway, investigating popular speech, upon which he sought to base a national language that should be free from Danish influence. In 1848 he published Dct ^orske Folkesprogs Gram- matil:, and in 1850 added Ordhog over det Norske Folkesprog, enlarged under the title of Tiorsk Ordhog in 1873, and in 1856 Norske Ordsprog, a treatise on Norw-egian proverbs. Through his linguistic work he was the originator of the patriotic movement generally known as the "Maalstrcev."
# The New International Encyclopædia/Aasvär

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​AASVÄR, a̤s'vâr. Islands off Norway, about latitude 66° (Map: Norway, D 3). They have herring fisheries, in which more than 10,000 men are employed in December and January, but for the rest of the year they are almost deserted. The fish is the great Nordland herring, and the catch often reaches 200,000 tons in a season.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Abbot, Henry Larcom

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​ABBOT, Henry Larcom (1831—). An American soldier and engineer. He was born at Beverly, Mass., and graduated at the United States Military Academy, West Point, in 1854, entering the corps of engineers, in which he served with distinction until his retirement in 1895. He was engaged in the survey for the Pacific Railroad and the hydrographic survey of the Mississippi River delta. During the Civil War he was engaged in engineering and artillery operations. He was wounded at the battle of Bull Run in 1861. In the operations around Richmond he commanded the siege artillery. At the close of the war he was brevetted Brigadier-General of United States Volunteers, and Major-General of the United States Army. For many years he was in command of the garrison of engineers at Willetts Point, N. Y., and while there developed the torpedo and submarine defense of the Long Island Sound approach to New York City and founded the school for engineers. In this connection he did much important work in military science, devoting himself to the design and construction of submarine mines and mortar batteries, as well as to the development of military engineering equipment and drill, and serving on the Gun Foundry Board, the Board on Fortifications and Defenses, and numerous other military commissions. He was a member of the board to devise a plan for the protection and reclamation of the Mississippi basin. In 1872 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He served as president of a board of consulting engineers to consider the question of a proposed ship canal from Pittsburg to Lake Erie, and designed the harbor at Manitowoc, Wis. In May, 1897, he was appointed a member of the Technical Committee of the New Panama Canal Company. He is the author of Siege Artillery in the Campaign Against Richmond (1867); Experiments and Investigations to Develop a System of Submarine Mines for Defending Harbors of the United States (1881), and with General A. A. Humphreys, Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi, in addition to a large number of reports of military and engineering commissions and boards.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Abbot, The

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​ABBOT, The. The title of one of Sir Walter Scott’s novels, published in 1820. Its incidents form a sequel to The Monastery, and are based upon the history of Mary, Queen of Scots, in the years 1567 and 1568, ending with the battle of Langside and her escape to England.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Aarsens, Frans van

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​AARSENS, är′sens, Frans van (1572-1641). A Dutch diplomat. At twenty-six years of age he was sent to Paris as the agent of the States-General; later he became ambassador for the United Provinces, and long represented his country at the French Court, where he was highly regarded by Richelieu. He was also at different periods Ambassador to Venice, Germany, and England. Motley, who considered Aarsens one of the ablest diplomats of Europe, shows that he contributed largely to the unrighteous death of Barneveldt, 1619.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Abasolo, Mariano

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​ABASOLO, ā'bá-sō'lô, Mariano (1780?-1819), A Mexican revolutionist, born at Dolores, Guanajuato. He participated in the revolution started by Hidalgo in 1810, and rose to be a major-general. He fought at Puente de Calderon. was taken prisoner by the Spaniards, was tried at Chihuahua, and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment at Cadiz, where he died.
# The New International Encyclopædia/Abbot, Willis John

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​ABBOT, Willis John (1863—). An American author and editor, grandson of John S. C. Abbott. He was born at New Haven, Conn., and graduated at the University of Michigan in 1884. He is best known by his Blue Jackets of ’61, Blue Jackets of 1812, and Blue Jackets of ’76, a series of stories for boys relating to the naval history of the United States, and by his Battle Fields of 1861. Mr. Abbot was managing editor of the Chicago Times in 1892 and 1893, and from 1896 to 1898 was on the editorial staff of the New York Journal.