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

Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir. "Mischiefs that I set abroach." Shak.

Capable of being abrogated.

Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law.

ential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France. Froude.

Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share. Wharton. Kent.

An agate. [Obs.] Evelyn.

re d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.

To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate. [Obs.] Skelton.

e the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. Milton. As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two ye…

Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.

y to; hence, adverse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time. The gate would have been shut against her. Fielding. An argument against the use of steam. Tyndale.

Containing or producing agates. Craig.

Pertaining to, or like, agate.

To convert into agate; to make resemble agate. Dana.

Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.

The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

One who aggregates.

Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.

number, quantity, or amount; the entire thing; everything included or concerned; the aggregate; the whole; totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at stake. Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all. Shak. All that thou seest is mine. Gen. xxxi. 43.