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Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." Thomson.

Unrestrainedly.

One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

One who abandons. Beau. & Fl.

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.

Banishment. [Obs.] Bailey.

Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe.

The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.

The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.

The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.

One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.

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.

A partial evacuation. Mayne.

A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.

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

Rejection by judicial sentence. [R.] Knowles.

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 weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. Blount.

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