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The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. Roget.

The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. "The aberration of youth." Hall. "Aberrations from theory." Burke.

Characterized by aberration.

To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.…

The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc.

sciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren. Acts xi. 29. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Bacon. The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability. Macaulay.

rigination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley,…

Characterized by abirritation or debility.

The act of bringing down or humbling. "The abjection of the king and his realm." Joe.

The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. [Obs.] Evelyn.

The act of sending abroad. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.

The act of cutting away the knots of trees. [R.] Crabb.

Abnormal; irregular. Hallam. A character of a more abnormous cast than his equally suspected coadjutor. State Trials.

Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.] Shak. And with her fled away without abode. Spenser.

The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.

The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.

The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.