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oryx|ˈɒrɪks|
Also 4–7 orix, (4–6 origen, 7 pl. origes).
[a. L. oryx (acc. orygem), a. Gr. ὄρυξ, ὀρυγ- (1) a pickaxe, (2) a kind of antelope or gazelle, so called from its pointed horns.]
a. The name in ancient Greek and Latin for an antelope of northern Africa, perh. Oryx leucoryx or O. beisa. In the LXX and Vulgate used to render Heb. thō (1611 wild ox, wild bull, R.V. antelope); hence occurring in Wyclif, etc. but erroneously identified with some small hibernating animal.
b. In mod. Zool., a genus of African antelopes, of large size, with long straight (or slightly curved) pointed horns in both sexes; an antelope of this genus. The South African species is O. capensis, the gemsbok.
1382Wyclif Deut. xiv. 5 This is the beest that ȝe owen to eete; oxe, and sheep, and she geet,..phigarg, origen. ― Isa. li. 20 The vnclene beste..that is clepid orix [1388 the beeste orix]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxxix. (MS. Bodl.) lf. 280 b/2 Orix hatte Tho in Ebrewe and is acounted in þe lawe amonge vnclene bestes,..is a beste liche to a water mows. 1535Coverdale Deut. xiv. 5 These are the Beestes which ye shal eate: Oxen, Shepe, Goates, Hert, Roo, Bugle, wylde goate, Vnicorne, Origen and camelion. 1601Holland Pliny I. 231 Of this kind be the Origes, the only beasts, as some thinke,..that..haue their haire growing contrariwise and turning toward the head. 1778R. Lowth Isaiah Prel. Diss. (ed. 12) 37 Like an oryx (a large fierce wild beast) in the toils. 1827tr. Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. IV. 187 The Caffrarian oryx is an animal of remarkable beauty and vigour. 1876E. E. Frewer tr. Verne's Adv. 3 Eng. & 3 Russ. in S. Afr. xvi. 123 A herd of about twenty of the species of antelope known as the oryx. |