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Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.

Relating to the patriarch Abraham.

The state or quality of being absorbable. Graham (Chemistry).

Absorption. [Obs.]

Absorptiveness.

Obtained from plants by distillation. [Obs.] Crabb.

Abstruseness; that which is abstruse. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. "The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number." Locke.

Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.

The quality of being accentual.

The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness. "Acceptability of repentance." Jer. Taylor.

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

The quality of being accidental; accidentalness. [R.] Coleridge.

A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike. Lowell.

The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls.

Like or belonging to the Accipitres; raptorial; hawklike.

To cite; to summon. [Obs.] Our heralds now accited all that were Endamaged by the Elians. Chapman.

Acclivous. I. Taylor.

lope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.