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Suspension; temporary suppression. Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. De Quincey.

To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with. She could not abide Master Shallow. Shak.

A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.

Extirpation. Dunglison.

Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.

Relating to the patriarch Abraham.

Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.

An abstract term. The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety." J. S. Mill.

The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.

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

An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. "And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason." Johnson.

An encroachment; usurpation. [Obs.] Bailey.

ng to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others.

Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

f presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight. The most affecting music is generally the most simple.

To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.

Beforehand; in anticipation. [Archaic or Dial.] She is come aforehand to anoint my body. Mark xiv. 8.

Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. [Archaic] "The body agent." Bacon.

The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens).