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Abetment. [R.]

One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender.

A partial evacuation. Mayne.

uppression. Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. De Quincey.

Abeyance. [R.] Hawthorne.

Being in a state of abeyance.

See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.

The berries of a species of cypress in the East Indies.

Abominable.

Inhuman. [Obs.] Fuller.

r or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.

Abhorrence. [Obs.] Locke.

Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

With abhorrence.

One who abhors. Hume.

Detestable. [R.]

Object of abhorrence. Isa. lxvi. 24.

st month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.

The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with). The Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine. Fuller. A judicious abidance by rules. Helps.