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estrainedly ; -- often in a bad sense. He abandoned himself . . . to his favorite vice. Macaulay.

stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay.

ng by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability. Macaulay.

ct posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

ful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech. No man wrote abler state papers. Macaulay.

with, to be filled with; to possess in great numbers. Men abounding in natural courage. Macaulay. A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. It abounds with cabinets of curiosities. Addison.

there in; to and fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.

Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, "Two men could hardly walk abreast." Macaulay.

s, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. "Another prince . . . was living abroad." Macaulay.

r. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

ther country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

uittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.

One who absolves. Macaulay.

indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak.

vile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.

nfinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth. The abysses of metaphysical theology. Macaulay. In unfathomable abysses of disgrace. Burke.

Open to the influence of; -- with to. "Minds accessible to reason." Macaulay.

s; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. "To come to terms of accommodation." Macaulay.

le thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels. Macaulay.