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Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.

The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley.

In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.

ll-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

treme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.

First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth.

The quality of being aboriginal. Westm. Rev.

Primarily.

Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive. Carlyle.

Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.

Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. "Absonant to nature." Quarles.

Pertaining to abstraction.

The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.

The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.

Pertaining to accession; additional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A combining together. [R.]

Sociable. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

To accuse of a crime. [Obs.] -- Ac*crim`i*na"tion, n. [Obs.]

A morbid condition characterized by the presence of acetone in the blood, as in diabetes.

A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.