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Uncustomable; also, not having paid duty or customs. Smollett.

To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

essor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc. Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

bearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain…

A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service. Abuse after disappeared without a struggle.. Macaulay.

To familiarize; to accustom. [Obs.] Evelyn. To be acquainted with, to be possessed of personal knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with.

See Accustomance. [Obs.]

A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.

The quality of being aged; oldness. Custom without truth is but agedness of error. Milton.

Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.

A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters.

Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places. The priesthood . . . before was very ambulatory, and dispersed into all families. Jer. Taylor.

A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea.

To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.

A lover; a gallant. [R.] Milton. It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey.

The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method.

A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.