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

Prodigal expense for food. [Obs.] Bailey.

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

Pertaining to ablution.

That which is washed off. [R.] Dwight.

a denial; a renunciation. With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox.

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

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 principles or measures of abolitionists. Wilberforce.

A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.

To imbue with the principles of abolitionism. [R.] Bartlett.

The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.

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

Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive. Carlyle.

One who procures abortion or miscarriage.

Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.

The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.

See Catharsis, below.

Absolute renunciation or repudiation. [Obs.] An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.

A snatching away. [Obs.]