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The act abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.

Pertaining to absence. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.

stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. Mrs. Browning.

Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

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

The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. Jer. Taylor.

Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining. Farrar.

The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance 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…

Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. Beau. & Fl.

of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes. J. S. Mill.

The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. [Modern]

Pertaining to abstraction.

rom apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. Profound and abstruse topics. Milman.

Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. "An abusive lampoon." Johnson.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound. Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. Carlyle.

Of or pertaining to Abyssinia. Abyssinian gold, an alloy of 90.74 parts of copper and 8.33 parts of zink. Ure.

Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.