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To resolve or explain. [Obs.] "We shall not absolve the doubt." Sir T. Browne.

To dishonor. "Shall flight abuse your name" Shak.

Given to misusing; also, full of abuses. [Archaic] "The abusive prerogatives of his see." Hallam.

drawee) to pay it when due. -- To accept service (Law), to agree that a writ or process shall be considered as regularly served, when it has not been. -- To accept the person (Eccl.), to show favoritism. "God accepteth no man's person." Gal. ii. 6.

favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc. They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar. Isa. lx. 7.

Admission to sexual intercourse. During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone.

A writ of account (Law), a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an action of account. Cowell.

e called on to render an account; accountableness. "The awful idea of accountability." R. Hall.

To join; to couple. [R.] The Englishmen accoupled themselves with the Frenchmen. Hall.

; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize. And the city shall be accursed. Josh. vi. 17. Thro' you, my life will be accurst. Tennyson.

An accuser. Bp. Hall.

To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

Shaped like a shallow; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray.

iss; awry. [Obs.] The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ. Bp. Hall.

rn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail. [Spelled also hacqueton.] [Obs.] Halliwell. Sir W. Scott.

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on). The Lord shall add to me another son. Gen. xxx. 24.

Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.

enalty of a curse; an earnest appeal. What an accusation could not effect, an adjuration shall. Bp. Hall.

adjured them not to let pass so favorable an opportunity of securing their liberties. Marshall.

random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.