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Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat. Chaucer.

Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied. I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. Fuller.

In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.

The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert.

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

Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. Locke.

The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility. Langhorne.

Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.

In an accessible manner.

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

Pertaining to accession; additional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Additional.

In an accusing manner.

The quality of being acetous; sourness.

Same as Akinesia.

Acquired. [Obs.] Burton.

The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay.

Acquired. [Obs.] He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton.

In the way of acquisition.