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sed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence. In Him we live, and move, and have our being. Acts xvii. 28.

Inherence; inherent existence. I. Watts.

Not existing. [Obs.] "Beings yet unbeing." Sir T. Browne.

The state or condition of being well; welfare; happiness; prosperity; as, virtue is essential to the well-being of men or of society.

y be written separately. This form of expression is now for the most part obsolete, the a being omitted and the verbal substantive treated as a participle.

A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼. [Written also Aum and Awm.]

to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.

The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.

Capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance.

The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.

Capable of being abdicated.

icted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.

To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.

State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form.

Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.

Being in a state of abeyance.

The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send reli…