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Happening every eighth year; also, lasting a period of eight years. Johnson. -- Oc*ten"ni*al*ly, adv.

olate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement. Ex. xxix. 36. A holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices. 1 Pet. ii. 5.

A combining form denoting all, every, everywhere; as in omnipotent, all-powerful; omnipresent.

Having every form or shape. Berkeley.

The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.

Equality in every part; general equality.

Perception of everything.

Perceiving everything. Dr. H. More.

Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent. God's will and pleasure and his omnipotent power. Sir T. More.

Presence in every place at the same time; unbounded or universal presence; ubiquity. His omnipresence fills Land, sea, and air, and every kind that lives. Milton.

Prevalent everywhere or in all things. Fuller.

Beholding everything; capable of seeing all things; all-seeing. [R.] "Omnispective Power!" Boyse.

Wandering anywhere and everywhere. [R.]

All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; esp. (Zoöl.), eating both animal and vegetable food. -- Om*niv"o*rous*ness, n.

affairs; business; current events. The common ongoings of this our commonplace world, and everyday life. Prof. Wilson.

herwise; no other than; exclusively; solely; wholly. "She being only wicked." Beau. & Fl. Every imagination . . . of his heart was only evil. Gen. vi. 5.

The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good.

ing orders. "Aids-de-camp and orderly men." Sir W. Scott. Orderly book (Mil.), a book for every company, in which the general and regimental orders are recorded. -- Orderly officer, the officer of the day, or that officer of a corps or regiment whose turn it is to supervise for the day the arrangements for food, clean…

aval vessel. -- Ordinary of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), the part of the Mass which is the same every day; -- called also the canon of the Mass.

A bay window. See Bay window. The beams that thro' the oriel shine Make prisms in every carven glass. Tennyson.