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on the anniversary of the day of his death. The emoluments and advantages from oblations, obits, and other sources, increased in value. Milman. Post obit Etym: [L. post obitum]. See Post-obit.

In passing; incidentally; by the way. Obiter dictum (Law), an incidental and collateral opinion uttered by a judge. See Dictum, n., 2(a).

Of or pertaining to obits, or days when obits are celebrated; as, obitual days. Smart.

In the manner of an obituary.

Of or pertaining to the death of a person or persons; as, an obituary notice; obituary poetry.

One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude. Gibbon.

Of or pertaining to a cenobite.

The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite. Milman.

See Cenobite.

A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.

Lack of probity; want of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty. Persons . . . cast out for notorious improbity. Hooker.

Of or pertaining to the Jacobites.

Of or pertaining to the Jacobites; characterized by Jacobitism. -- Jac`o*bit"ic*al*ly, adv.

The principles of the Jacobites. Mason.

One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.

Same as Columbite.

A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. Bouvier.

Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness. "Probity of mind." Pope.

A book of the Apocrypha.

An extinct order of arthropods comprising the trilobites.