adj.
v. t. [ Contracted from abandon. ]
Enforced the kingdom to aband. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]
Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
He abandoned himself . . . to his favorite vice. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. abandon. fr. abandonner. See Abandon, v. ] Abandonment; relinquishment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ F. See Abandon. ] A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
God gave them over to a reprobate mind. Rom. i. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Unrestrainedly. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Law) One to whom anything is legally abandoned. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who abandons. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. abandonnement. ]
The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ LL. See Abandon. ] (Law) Anything forfeited or confiscated. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having much intellectual power. --
v. i.
The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. [ 1913 Webster ]
Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]
To abound in,
To abound with,
Men abounding in natural courage. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]
It abounds with cabinets of curiosities. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
v. t. [ L. absindere; ab + scindere to rend, cut. See Schism. ] To cut off. [ R. ] “Two syllables . . . abscinded from the rest.” Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
The marmot absconds all winter. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]
That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To hide; to conceal. [ Obs. ] Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. [ R. ] Phillips. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who absconds. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
a. Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. --
n. [ OE. (h)abundaunce, abundance, F. abondance, L. abundantia, fr. abundare. See Abound. ] An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. [ 1913 Webster ]
It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ OE. (h)abundant, aboundant, F. abondant, fr. L. abudans, p. pr. of abundare. See Abound. ] Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with. “Abundant in goodness and truth.” Exod. xxxiv. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]
Abundant number (Math.),
adv. In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖a. [ It. ] (Mus.) Gradually accelerating the movement. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ L. accendere, accensum, to kindle; ad + cand&ebreve_;re to kindle (only in compounds); rel. to candēre to be white, to gleam. See Candle. ] To set on fire; to kindle. [ Obs. ] Fotherby. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. Achillis tendo. ] (Anat.) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A stony meteor lacking chondrules. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
adj.
n. (Med.) A skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
adj. (Med.) of or pertaining to achondroplasia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n.
‖ [ L., for catching. ] A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
‖n.;
Addendum circle (Mech.),
p. p. Made friends; reconciled. [ Obs. ] “Deadly foes . . . affriended.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
pos>adv. Beforehand; in anticipation. [ Archaic or Dial. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
She is come aforehand to anoint my body. Mark xiv. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Prepared; previously provided; -- opposed to
Aforehand in all matters of power. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a “colored” mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To withstand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Agendum. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
‖n.;
a. Capable of being aggrandized. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Aggrandizement. [ Obs. ] Waterhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To increase or become great. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Follies, continued till old age, do aggrandize. J. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]