Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

OSPREY A bird of the eagle kind, unfit for food, Lev 11:13 . It is thought to be the sea eagle, or the black eagle of Egypt. See BIRDS. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Osprey Osprey. Sometimes called fish hawk or fishing eagle, the osprey is a member of the hawk family. With a … Continue reading “Osprey”

Ospray, (Osprey) ozniyyah. The osprey is a bird allied to the large fish-eating eagles. It steadily balances itself over the water with scarcely a wing moving, and darts down upon a fish when it comes to the surface, strikes its sharp hooked talons into its side, and carries it to the shore. It was classed … Continue reading “Ospray, (Osprey)”

Ospray (by ornithologists, Osprey) is the rendering in the A. V. of the Hebrew , ozniyah’ (Sept. , or sea-eagle; which Jerome follows, halyetus and halecetus, some copies translating it aquila marina; but the Veneto-Greek MS. has , the vulture, from mere conjecture); the name of some unclean bird which the law of Moses disallowed … Continue reading “Ospray”

O.S.P.P.E. = Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit; Pauline Fathers Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Osorio, Geronimo (2) nephew of the preceding, was canon of Evora, and, having been educated by his uncle, endeavored to imitate his style; but he was not so fine a writer, though he seems to have had more learning. He wrote, besides a life of his uncle, Notationes in Hieronymi Osorii Paraphrasin Psalmorum, subjoined to … Continue reading “Osorio, Geronimo (2)”

Osorio, Francisco Meneses a Spanish painter, was born at Seville in the latter part of the 17th century. He studied under Murillo, and became one of the most successful imitators of that artist. In concert with Juan Garzon, one of his fellow-disciples, he painted several pictures in the churches and convents of Seville. In 1688 … Continue reading “Osorio, Francisco Meneses”

Osorio (Or Osorius), Geronimo (1) a learned Roman Catholic Portuguese divine, aind an excellent writer, the descendant of an illustrious family, was born at Lisbon in 1506. Showing an extraordinary inclination for literature, he was sent, at thirteen, to the University of Salamanca, and there learned Greek and Latin, and studied the law. At nineteen … Continue reading “Osorio (Or Osorius), Geronimo (1)”

Osnappar OSNAPPAR (so written in RV [Note: Revised Version.] of Ezr 4:10. Asnapper of AV [Note: Authorized Version.] is more correct; but the best reading of the Hebrew is Asenappar).A curiously distorted form of Ashurbanipal, the name of the last great king of Assyria (b.c. 668626), the son of Esarhaddon, and grandson of Sennacherib. He … Continue reading “Osnappar”

Osnabruuml;ck (OSNABRUGENSIS) This diocese, directly subject to the Holy See, comprises, in the Prussian Province of Hanover, the civil districts of Osnabrück and Aurich (excepting Wilhelmshaven) and that part of Hanover situated on the west of the Weser. In 1910 it numbered 12 deaneries, 108 parishes, 153 pastoral stations, 271 secular and 12 regular priests, … Continue reading “Osnabruuml;ck”

Osmund, Saint Confessor; bishop of Salisbury; born Normandy France; died 1099. A nephew of William the Conqueror, who made him his chancellor in England and one of the Domesday Book commissioners, in 1078 he was consecrated Bishop of Sarum, a see later translated to Salisbury. He is noted chiefly for the formation of the Sarum … Continue reading “Osmund, Saint”