n. A necromancer; a sorcerer.n. An abbreviation of objection, used in connection with sol, abbreviation of solution, in the margins of old books of divinity. Hence obs and sols, objections and solutions. See ob-and-soler.n. An abbreviation of the Latin obiit, he (or she) died: used in dates.n. A prefix in words of Latin origin, meaning ‘toward,’ ‘to,’ ‘against,’ etc., or ‘before,’ ‘near,’ ‘along by,’ but often merely intensive, and not definitely translatable.An abbreviationof the Latin obiter, incidentally, by the way;of oboe.