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One who abides, or continues. [Obs.] "Speedy goers and strong abiders." Sidney.

One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent. Huxley.

One who abjures.

One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything. [R.]

To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

One who abolishes.

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

o become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.

One who procures abortion or miscarriage.

One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith.

One who abridges.

t us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

One who repeals by authority.

depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

One who absconds.

One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

One who absents one's self.

In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively.

One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.

One who absolves. Macaulay.