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15,442 words match “AB”

ABIRRITANT n.
A medicine that diminishes irritation.
ABIRRITATE v.
To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate.
ABIRRITATION n.
A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.
ABIRRITATIVE a.
Characterized by abirritation or debility.
ABIT n.
3d sing. pres. of Abide. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ABJECT a. 4 definitions
From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.
ABJECTEDNESS n.
A very abject or low condition; abjectness. [R.] Boyle.
ABJECTION n. 3 definitions
The act of bringing down or humbling. "The abjection of the king and his realm." Joe.
ABJECTLY adv.
Meanly; servilely.
ABJECTNESS n.
The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. Grew.
ABJUDGE v.
To take away by judicial decision. [R.]
ABJUDICATE v.
To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge. [Obs.] Ash.
ABJUDICATION n.
Rejection by judicial sentence. [R.] Knowles.
ABJUGATE v.
To unyoke. [Obs.] Bailey.
ABJUNCTIVE a.
Exceptional. [R.] It is this power which leads on from the accidental and abjunctive to the universal. I. Taylor.
ABJURATION n. 2 definitions
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.
ABJURATORY a.
Containing abjuration.
ABJURE v. 3 definitions
To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.
ABJUREMENT n.
Renunciation. [R.]
ABJURER n.
One who abjures.
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