a monastery of persons of either sex presided over by an abbot or abbess: the church now or formerly attached to it: in Newstead Abbey, &c., the name has been retained after the abbatial building had become a private house:- pl. the female superior of a religious community of women. They were often tutors in noble families, or men of letters, and were marked by a short violet-coloured robe.Ībbess, ab′es, n. Before the Revolution, abbés were often merely holders of benefices, enjoying a portion of the revenues, although in minor orders, or even laymen. originally the French name for an abbot, but often used in the general sense of a priest or clergyman. a title loosely applied to ecclesiastics in Italy.-Also Abate. the office or dignity of an abbot: the establishment under an abbot: an abbey.- adj. text of the New Testament, together with its translation 'father,' hence Abba father, applied to God the Father: also a bishop in the Syriac and Coptic Churches. properly woof- or weft-yarn, but sometimes warp-yarn. ( fort.) a rampart of trees felled and laid side by side, with the branches towards the enemy. Abate′ment, the act of abating: the sum or quantity abated: ( law) the act of intruding on a freehold and taking possession before the heir, the abandonment of an action, or the reduction of a legacy: ( her.) a supposed mark of dishonour on a coat of arms-apparently never actually used.- Abated arms, those whose edges have been blunted for the tournament. Abāt′able, capable of being abated Abāt′ed, beaten down or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief.- n. to lessen: to deduct (with of): to mitigate: ( law) to put an end to, do away with, as of an action or a nuisance, to render null, as a writ.- v.i. Abashed′ (with at, of an occasion by, of a cause).- n. to cast down: to humble: to degrade.- adjs. Aban′donment, act of abandoning: state of being given up: enthusiastic surrender of self to a cause: ( law) the renunciation of a claim. Aban′doned, given up, as to a vice: profligate: completely deserted: very wicked.- adv. Aban′don ( n to be nasalised), freedom from conventional restraints: careless freedom of manners.- adj. to give up: to desert: to yield (one's self) without restraint (with to).- v.t. Same as Alienate.Ībandon, a-ban′dun, v.t. on the aft, hind, or stern part of a ship: behind. the destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit: ( Milton) the bottomless pit, or abyss of hell itself. of Abacus Ab′acist, one who counts with the abacus. a counting-frame or table: ( archit.) a level tablet on the capital of a column, supporting the entablature:- pl. ( law) the stealing of a number of cattle at once.- n. ( zool.) remote from the actinal area, without rays.- adv. ( naut.) said of sails pressed backward against the mast by the wind-hence ( fig.) Taken aback, taken by surprise, Ībactinal, ab-ak′ti-nal, adj. the native name of the so-called Manilla hemp of commerce-really a plantain, much grown in the Philippine Islands.Īback, a-bak′, adv. a Syrian woollen stuff, of goat's or camel's hair, usually striped an outer garment made of this. the eleventh month of the Jewish civil year, and the fifth of the ecclesiastical year, answering to parts of July and August. sarmentosa), usually grown in hanging pots, from which hang long stems, bearing clumps of roundish, hairy leaves.Īb, ab, n. Aa′ron's-rod ( archit.), a rod having one serpent twined round it.- Aaron's beard, a popular name for a number of cultivated plants-among the best known, a species of Saxifrage ( S. pertaining to Aaron, the Jewish high-priest, or to his priesthood.- n. the earth-wolf of South Africa, a carnivore belonging to a sub-family of the Hyænidæ. ab, from, of, used before consonants, as in Thomas à Kempis, Thomas à Becket, &c.Īardvark, ard′vark, n. Ī, ä, a dialectic corruption of he or she, as in quoth a, ( Shak.) ' A babbled of green fields.'- A, usually written a', Scotch for all A, a form of the L. on, and still used, as a prefix, in afoot, afield, apart, asleep, now adays, twice- a-day also with verbal nouns, as a-building, to be a-doing, to set a-going. Ī, ä or ā, a prep., derived from the old prep. It originated in the hieroglyphic picture of an eagle (Old Egyptian ahom), the cursive hieratic form of which was the original of the Phœnician aleph, an ox, from a fancied resemblance to its head and horns.- A, as a note in music, is the major sixth of the scale of C A1, the symbol by which first-class vessels are classed in Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping, hence first-rate.Ī, the indefinite article, a broken-down form of An, and used before words beginning with the sound of a consonant. The first letter in our alphabet, its corresponding symbol standing first also in many other alphabets derived from the Phœnician.
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