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To lower (physically), depress, bring or cast down. arch.
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To beat down, demolish, destroy.
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trans. To proclaim or declare to be no longer one's own, to disclaim, disown, cast off; esp. to disown or disinherit children. Now only as a tech. term of Roman Law (Latin abdicare filium, also patrem).
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| lit. A wandering away, a straying; a deviation or divergence from the straight or recognized path. |
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| Fraud, cunning, wiles. Old French abet instigation, wile, trickery; |
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| To urge on, stimulate (a person to do something). Obs. |
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1. Law. Expectation or contemplation of law; the postion of waiting for or being without a claimant or owner.
2. A state of suspension, temporary non-existence or inactivity; dormant or latent condition liable to be at any time revived. |
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| trans. lit. To shrink back from with shuddering, to view with horror or dread. Obs. |
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| Abhorring, shrinking with horror; having or showing abhorrence, repugnance, or detestation (of). |
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| trans. To renounce on oath, forswear; to withdraw, retract, recant (a heresy or other opinion or position formerly held). |
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| A feeling or state of mind of disgust and hatre; detestation, loathing, abhorrence. Freq. with of (also to , at ). to hold (also have) in abomination: to loathe, detest. |
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| the practice of holding persons in servitude or partial slavery; as to work off a debt or to pay off a penal sentence |
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| existing or occurring with something else, often in a lesser way; accompanying; concurrent |
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| doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt; questionable; of uncertain outcome; wavering or hesitating in opinion |
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| outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended; apparent, evident, or conspicuous |
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| very old, old fashioned, or out of date; antiquated; primitive |
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| before or existing before the war, especially the American civil war |
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| use of force or intimidation to obtain compliance |
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| gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted; gloomy, depressing, or dismal; extremely serious; grave |
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