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A vulgar person; one who has vulgar ideas. Used also adjectively.

Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.

The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society. Sir T. Browne.

The act or process of making vulgar, or common.

To make vulgar, or common. Exhortation vulgarized by low wit. V. Knox.

In a vulgar manner.

The quality of being vulgar.

Government by Whigs. [Cont] Swift.

A gypsy.

or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay.

A partial alienation of reason. "Occasional aberrations of intellect." Lingard. Whims, which at first are the aberrations of a single brain, pass with heat into epidemic form. I. Taylor.

To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope.

act terms, those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of orders, genera or species of things, in which there is a combination of similar qualities. -- Abstract numbers (Math.), numbers used without application t…

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. [Obs.] This is saying worthy of all acceptation. 1 Tim. i. 15. Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker.

alculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time. A beggarly account of empty boxes. Shak.

A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.

Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation.

of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.