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From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

A very abject or low condition; abjectness. [R.] Boyle.

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

Meanly; servilely.

The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. Grew.

Abjectly; downcastly.

esult or consequence, after the correlatives so and such. [Obs.] I can place thee in such abject state, as help shall never find thee. Rowe. So as, so that. [Obs.] The relations are so uncertain as they require a great deal of examination. Bacon.

Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

osed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man! Young.

Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. Locke.

Cast down; humble; submissive. [Obs.] He down descended like a most demiss And abject thrall. Spenser.

Excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration. The real and absolute worship of fire falls into two great divisions, the first belonging rather to fetichism, the second to polytheism proper. Tylor.

One who flatters. The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. Addison.

uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl. To creep and grovel on the ground. Dryden.

One who grovels; an abject wretch. [Written also groveller.]

sa (M. sensitiva). -- To eat humble pie, to endure mortification; to submit or apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or humilitation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See Humbles. Halliwell. Thac…

An abject flatterer or parasite. Theodore Hook.

cifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean. The just medium . . . lies between pride and abjection. L'Estrange.

n Into this deep. Milton. Enterprises of great pitch and moment. Shak. To lowest pitch of abject fortune. Milton. He lived when learning was at its highest pitch. Addison. The exact pitch, or limits, where temperance ends. Sharp.

To direct toward an abject; to aim; as, to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort.