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Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible Hooker.

; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.

A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.

ing, or zero point, in the scale of absolute temperature. It is equivalent to -273º centigrade or -459.4º Fahrenheit.

To consume gradually; to waste away. [Obs.] Boyle.

ed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. Pope. p. 9

That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. His travels were full of absurdities. Johnson.

Gradually accelerating the movement.

To receive with favor; to approve. The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice. Ps. xx. 3. Peradventure he will accept of me. Gen. xxxii. 20.

] The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge.

nerally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour. Faraday.

A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.

A complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid.

wn peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in distinction from the others which are called oxygen…

One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade.

Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid.

Pertaining to the part of a radiate animal which contains the mouth. L. Agassiz.