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With stronger reason.

A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

terizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.

In the morning; every morning. [Obs.] And have such pleasant walks into the woods A-mornings. J. Fletcher.

One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves. [Obs.]

. (b) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone.

One who abbreviates or shortens.

Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

One who abdicates.

A place for hiding or preserving articles of value. Cowell.

Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

A weeding machine.

One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender.

See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.

To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.

Abhorrence. [Obs.] Locke.

Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.