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Exceptional. [R.] It is this power which leads on from the accidental and abjunctive to the universal. I. Taylor.

Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to e…

Having much intellectual power. -- A`ble-mind"ed*ness, n.

Higher in rank or power; as, he appealed to the court above.

shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights. "The bridegroom . . . abridged his visit." Smollett. She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. Fuller.

; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe. E. Darwin.

The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.

Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature. "The abstractive faculty." I. Taylor.

usly to; to punish or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to abuse one's powers, one's patience.

chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss. Milton. The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light. Dryden.

terata, including the Medusæ or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.

cceded to the throne in the year 1461. T. Warton. If Frederick had acceded to the supreme power. Morley.

The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers. Kent.

as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives. They had attempted to accroach to themselves royal power. Stubbs.

To increase; to augment. And though power failed, her courage did accrue. Spenser.

The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. Accumulation of energy or power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees (Eng. Univ.), the taking of several together, or at smaller intervals than usual or than is allowed by the ru…

An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.

to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise. Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it. I. Taylor.