Meaning of oblivium | Babel Free

Definitions

Oblivion.

nonstandard, obsolete, rare, uncountable

Examples

“Perſley, Petroſelinum, or Apium hortenſe; being hot and dry, opens Obſtructions, is very Diuretic, yet nouriſhing, edulcorated in ſhifted warm Water (the Roots eſpecially) but of leſs Vertue than Alexanders; nor ſo convenient in our crude Sallet, as when decocted on a Medicinal Account. Some few tops of the tender Leaves may yet be admitted; tho’ it was of old, we read, never brought to the Table at all, as ſacred to Oblivium and the Defunct.”

“To this purpose, calling to mind how their dissenting in matter of worship and Church government, from that which was used and established in the rest of our dominions, was the chief, if not the only, cause of the late disorders amongst them; we have thought it the best way, for preventing the like in time to come, as to comprehend them in the common Act of Oblivium; […]”

“Best friend of frail humanity, and like all other friends best estimated in its loss. Who has not known the value of oblivium whene’er some newly past or close impending evil has flung its giant shadows athwart the morning twilight of the soul?”

“Sometimes the attack consists in a momentary loss of consciousness, “oblivium quoddam et delirium adeo breve, ut fere ad se redeat, priusquam ab adstantibus animadvertatur.” — Heberdeni Comment., cap. 33. Sometimes this oblivium precedes the attack of convulsion. […] Does such a spasmodic action take place in the muscles of the neck unnoticed, compress the veins which convey the blood from the brain, and induce the oblivium to which I have just alluded?”

“There is no order, no degree, in which the muscles of the neck may not act, and in which the veins of the neck may not be compressed; there is no form of cerebral and spinal paroxysmal derangement—from a momentary oblivium or delirium to coma or mania—from the slightest spasmodic or paralytic affection to epilepsy or hemiplegia—which may not take place as consequences of that compression. […] Let us imagine a similar condition of the internal jugular; there will be a state of blushing, in other words, of congestion of the cerebrum, with oblivium, stupor, or even apoplexy. […] This statement may be expanded into the different modes and forms of diseases of the nervous system, in their cerebral and spinal portions. Hence we have stupor, oblivium, cerebral epilepsy, vertigo, headach, delirium, flashes of light, muscæ, flocci, dimness, amaurosis in every degree, tinnitus, and other noises, dulness, deafness; […]”

“These premonitory symptoms are, dull pain in the head, with a sense of weight or heaviness, the pain may be located at any part, but mostly around the occipital region; […] slight faintness or vertigo, with paleness of countenance, and momentary disturbed intellect or oblivium; […]”

“The descent of the waters man calls “gravity,” but each murmur is a seeming protest against its final destiny of oblivium in some murky, sluggish river at the foot of the mountain.”

“‘And what are you going to do, Ernie? Are you for turning down Fanny? And letting the cheese pies just drop into the mud of Oblivium, as the saying goes, and be forgotten for ever and ever and ever?’”

“You will see a housecleaning pretty soon, girlie, and some of our old favorites will be sucked into the vacuum cleaner and dumped in the ashpit of oblivium.”

“He kept bragging of the worst moments, celebrating his glory as “the greates’ failure in the worl’s hissery. My magnum opus ran one-half of one consecutive night. So let’s open us a magnum. Three tears for oblivium.””

“At the same time, they asserted, that since the rectors of Padua were so occupied with a multitude of duties that they were leaving the studium fall into oblivium, they should each year select four responsible citizens (boni cives) who would serve as ‘Sollecitores,’ and reformers of the studium.”

“As a matter of fact, the problem is not of mere survival. Jews will survive as a group, and, despite the fact that many of them would like to fuse and disappear, they cannot, because the doors to the inner sanctum of oblivium are closed to them. Jews will continue to exist, but physical existence alone is hardly an admirable state of being.”

“Programs that feature single women usually fade into oblivium or the stars marry; American viewers have little interest in a single woman’s adventures.”

“En el caso de Simón Díaz era imperiosamente necesario impedir que su aporte quedara librado a los riesgos de olvido o adulteración.”

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