Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Oswald Beer Geologist . Born 1809; died 1883. One of the ipaugurators of paleo-botany. Distinguished investigator of Tertiary plants and insects and of the Arctic Miocene flora. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

O’Sullivan Beare, Philip Born in Ireland, c. 1590; died in Spain, 1660, son of Dermot O’Sullivan and nephew of Donal O’Sullivan Beare, Lord of Dunboy. He was sent to Spain in 1602, and was educated at Compostella by Vendamma, a Spaniard, and Father Synnott, an Irish Jesuit. He served in the Spanish army. In 1621 … Continue reading “O’Sullivan Beare, Philip”

O.S.U. = Order of Saint Ursula; Ursulines Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Ostwald, Wilhelm (1853-1932) German chemist. Winner of the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1909. In Die Uberwindung des wissenschaftlichen Materialistmus and in Naturphilosophie, his two best known works in the field of philosophy, he advocates a dynamic theory in opposition to materialism and mechanism. All properties of matter, and the psychic as well, are special … Continue reading “Ostwald, Wilhelm”

Ostrogoths One of the two chief tribes of the Goths, a Germanic people. Their traditions relate that the Goths originally lived on both sides of the Baltic Sea, in Scandinavia and on the Continent. Their oldest habitations recorded in history were situated on the right bank of the Vistula. They left these, all or in … Continue reading “Ostrogoths”

Ostriches General references Job 39:13-18; Lam 4:3; Isa 13:21; Isa 34:13; Isa 43:20 The cry of Mic 1:8 Also translated »owl« in KJV Lev 11:16; Deu 14:15; Job 30:29; Isa 43:20; Jer 50:39; Mic 1:8 Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

OSTRICH The largest of birds, and a sort of connecting link between fowls and quadrupeds, termed by the Persians, Arabs, and by Greeks, the “camel-bird.” It is a native of the dry and torrid regions of Africa and western Asia. The gray ostrich is seven feet high and its neck three feet long; it weighs … Continue reading “Ostrich”

Ostrander, Henry, D.D a Reformed (Dutch ) minister, was born at Plattekill, N.Y., March 11, 1781. He graduated from Union College in 1799; studied under Dr. Froeligh; was licensed by the Classis of Paramus in 1800; became pastor at Coxsackie in 1801; at Catskill (or Leeds) in 1810; Caatsban in 1812; also at Saugerties village … Continue reading “Ostrander, Henry, D.D”

Ostrander, Daniel a veteran Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Plattekill, N.Y., August 9, 1772. He was converted at sixteen, entered the New York Conference in 1793, was for fourteen years on circuits, for eight on station (New York, Brooklyn, and Albany),. and for twenty-eight years was presiding elder. From 1808 to 1840 inclusive he … Continue reading “Ostrander, Daniel”

Ostraka, Christian Inscriptions on clay, wood, metal, and other hard materials. Like papyri, they are valuable especially as the literary sources for early Christianity. They are found chiefly in Oriental countries, especially Egypt. The greatest number are pieces of clay or scraps of pots inscribed with colors or ink. The oldest Christian ostraka, like the … Continue reading “Ostraka, Christian”