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The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.

Renunciation. [R.]

Non-germinal.

A foreboding; an omen. [Obs.] "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.

Abortment; abortion. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Abstaining from wine. [Orig. Latin sense.] Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain. Milton.

The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.

An academy. [Poetic] Shak.

Academic. [R.]

A member of an academy, university, or college.

A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.

Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

In an academical manner.

The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.

A tenet of the Academic philosophy.

The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. [Obs.] Baxter.

An Academic philosopher.

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Acclimation. [R.]