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Abjectly; downcastly.

To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.] The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. Edw. Hall.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

ling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.

. [Obs.] If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate. Sir T. Browne.

The white polar (Populus alba). Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning.

To wander; to stray. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To go astray; to diverge. [R.] Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.

Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

The act of bringing down or humbling. "The abjection of the king and his realm." Joe.

esy. Oath of abjuration, an oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender. Brande & C.

-- To keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. -- To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

To tear off or asunder. [Obs.] "Till death abrupts them." Sir T. Browne.

The state of being cut off. Sir T. Browne.

mptory. [R.] The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. Mrs. Browning.

To resolve or explain. [Obs.] "We shall not absolve the doubt." Sir T. Browne.

To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently…

Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. The evil abstracted stood from his own evil. Milton.