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Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.

Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.

Pertaining to ablution.

Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.

Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive. Carlyle.

A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion. Dunglison.

Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.

Pertaining to absence. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.

Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to Ant: concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. J. S. Mill.

The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whitene…

Pertaining to abstraction.

The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound. Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. Carlyle.

Of or pertaining to Abyssinia. Abyssinian gold, an alloy of 90.74 parts of copper and 8.33 parts of zink. Ure.

Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. "Acadian farmers." Longfellow. -- n.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.