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OBJURGATORY :  adj  rebuking, scolding. OBJURGATIONS, noun

He used a lot of bad language under his breath, . . . but what the target of these objurgations was he could not say. . . .

--Durrell, Constance, pp. 322-323.

OBLIQUITY :  noun  a going off at an angle, deviance, divergence. Compare ABAXIAL, LOXODROMIC

Adventure itself, bringing them through the random, compassless, ever swerving obliquity of tenuously joined place and across the stumbled, almost drunken vaulting of nameless . . . duchies and borders and diminishing jurisdictions. . . .

--Elkin, George Mills, pp. 11-12.

Father had a slight edge in the sly obliquities and ornately subtle ironies. . . .

--DeVries, Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, p. 77.

OGDOAD :  noun  a group of eight. See PATIBULARY

OPUNTIA :  noun  either a prickly pear or Indian fig. See PATIBULARY

OREAD :  noun  mountain nymph. See ARTEMID. Compare DRYAD, MAELID, NAIAD

OREXIS :  noun  desire, appetite. ORECTIC, adj. See also EUTRIPSIA

A sweet orexis rising in his cock. . . .

--Davenport, "The Dawn in Erewhon,"
Tatlin!, p. 238.