vent was to take place
Penthea starved herself to death, and Orgilus was condemned to death for
murdering Ithocl[^e]s.--John Ford, _The Broken Heart_ (1633).

=Orgoglio= [_Or.gole'.yo_], a hideous giant, as tall as three men, son of
Earth and Wind. Finding the Red Cross Knight at the fountain of Idleness
he beats him with a club, and makes him his slave. Una informs Arthur of
it, and Arthur liberates the knight and slays the giant (_Rev._ xiii. 5,
7, with _Dan._ vii. 21, 22).--Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, i. (1590).

[Asterism] Arthur first cut off Orgoglio's _left arm_, _i. e._ Bohemia
was cut off first from the Church of Rome; then he cut off the giant's
_right leg_, _i. e._ England.

=Orgon=, brother-in-law of Tartuffe (2 _syl._). His credulity and faith in
Tartuffe, like that of his mother, can scarcely be shaken even by the
evidence of his senses. He hopes against hope, and fights every inch of
ground in defence of the religious hypocrite.--Moli[`e]re, _Tartuffe_
(1664).

=Oria'na=, daughter of Lisuarte, king of England, and spouse of Am'adis of
Gaul (bk. ii. 6). The general plot of this series of romances bears on
this marriage, and tells of the thousand and one obstacles from rivals,
giants, sorcerers and so on, which had to be overcome before the
consummation could be effected. It is in this unity of plot that the
Amadis series differs from its predecessors--the Arthurian romances, and
those of the paladins of Charlemagne, which are detached adventures,
each complete in itself, and not bearing to any common focus.--_Amadis
de Gaul_ (fourteenth century).

[Asterism] Queen Elizabeth is called "the peerless Oriana," especially
in the madrigals entitled _The Triumphs of Oriana_ (1601). Ben Jonson
applies the name to the queen of James I. (_Oriens Anna_).

_Oriana_, the nursling of a lioness, with whom Esplandian fell in love,
and for whom he underwent all his perils and exploits. She was the
gentlest, fairest, and most faithful of her sex.--Lobeira, _Amadis de
Gaul_ (fourteenth century).

_Orian'a_, the fair, brilliant, and witty "chaser" of the "wild goose"
Mirabel, to whom she is betrothed, and whose wife she ultimately
becomes.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Wild-Goose Chase_ (1652).

_Oriana_, the ward of old Mirabel, and bound by contract to her
guardian's son whom she loves; but young Mirabel shilly-shallies, till
he gets into trouble with Lamorce (3 _syl._), and is in danger of being
murdered, when