abhor 
II. iiitrait*. If. To shrink back with disgust, 
or with fear and shudderings. 
To abhorre from those vices. 
1'ilall, KrasuillM, St. Jumes. iv. 
2. To be antagonistic ; be averse or of oppo- 
site character : with /row. 
\\ hii-li is utterly ablinrrinii/nui the end of all law. 
Milttm, Divorce, II. vii. 711. 
abhorrence (ab-hor'ens), . [< abhorrent: see 
-an ft.'] 1. The act of abhorring ; a feeling of 
extreme aversion or detestation ; strong hatred. 
One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has 
no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very re- 
miss in this duty. Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. 280. 
2f. An expression of abhorrence. Specifically, 
an address presented in 1880 to Charles II. of England, 
expressing abhorrence of the Addressers (which see). 
3. That which excites repugnance or loathing: 
as, servility is my abhorrence. = gyn. i. Horror, 
hatred, detestation, repugnance, disgust, loathing, shrink- 
ing, antipathy, aversion. 
abhorrencyt (ab-hor'en-si), n. The quality of 
being abhorrent, or the state of regarding any- 
thing with horror or loathing. 
The first tendency to any injustice . . . must be sup- 
pressed with a show of wonder and abhorrencj/ in the 
parents. Locke, Education, II 110. 
abhorrent (ab-hor'ent), a. [< L. abhorren(t-)s, 
ppr. of abhorrere: see abhor.'] 1. Hating; de- 
testing ; struck with abhorrence. 
The arts of pleasure in despotic courts 
I spurn abhorrent. Glover, Leonidas, x. 
2. Exciting horror or abhorrence ; very repul- 
sive ; detestable: as, abhorrent scenes; an 
abhorrent criminal or course of conduct. 3. 
Contrary; utterly repugnant; causing aver- 
sion: formerly with from, now with to. 
And yet it is so abhorrent from the vulgar. 
Glaneille, Seep. Sci. 
Christianity turns from these scenes of strife, as abhor- 
rent to her highest injunctions. Sumner, Aug. 27, 1846. 
abhorrently (ab-hor'ent-li), adv. With abhor- 
rence ; in an abhorrent manner. 
abhqrrer (ab-hor'er), . One who abhors. 
Specifically (with or without a capital letter), in the reign 
of Charles II. of England, a member of the court party, 
afterward called Tories. They derived their name from 
their professed abhorrence of the principles of the Ad- 
dressers, who endeavored to restrict the royal prerogative. 
See addresser. 
Scarce a day passed but some abhorrer was dragged 
before them [the House of Commons] and committed to 
the custody of the sergeant-at-arms, at the pleasure of the 
house. Roger North, Examen, p. 661. 
abhorrible (ab-hor'i-bl), a. [< abhor + -iblf, 
after horrible.] Worthy or deserving to be ab- 
horred. [Bare.] 
abhorring (ab-h6r'ing), n. 1. A feeling of ab- 
horrence ; loathing. 
I find no abhorring in my appetite. Donne, Devotion. 
2t- An object of abhorrence. 
They shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. Isa. Ixvi. 24. 
abhul, n. See abhal. 
Abia(a'bi-a), n. AgenusotHymenoptera. Leach. 
Abib (a'bib), n. [Heb. dbib, an ear of corn, 
< dbab, produce early fruit, < db, swelling.] 
The time of newly ripe grain ; the first month 
of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, beginning 
with the new moon of March. Abib seems to have 
been the designation of a season rather than the name of 
a month. After the Babylonish captivity it was also 
called Nisan (Neh. ii. 1). 
abidance (a-bi'dans), . [< abidel + -ance.] 
The act of abiding or continuing; abode; stay. 
Fuller. [Rare.] 
And then, moreover, there is His personal abidance in 
our churches, raising earthly service into a foretaste of 
heaven. J. ff. Newman, Gram, of Assent, p. 475. 
abide 1 (a-bid'), v. ; pret. and pp. abode, ppr. 
abiding. [< ME. abiden (pret. sing, abod, pi. 
abiden, pp. abiden), < AS. dbidan (pret. sing. 
dbdd, pi. dbidon, pp. abiden) (=Goth. mbeidan, 
expect). < a- + bidan, bide: see bide. The ME. 
and AS. forms are trans, and intrans.] I. 
trans. 1 . To wait for ; especially, to stand one's 
ground against. 
Abide me if thou dar'st. Shak., M. N. D., ill. 2. 
Howbeit we abide our day ! M. Arnold, Balder Dead. 
2. To await ; be in store for. 
Bonds and afflictions abide me. Acts xx. 23. 
3. To endure or sustain ; remain firm under. 
Who may abide the day of his coming? Mai. iii. 2. 
Greatness does not need plenty, and can very well abide 
its loss. Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. ati 
4. To put up with ; tolerate. [In this collo- 
quial sense approaching afci'rie 2 .] 
I cannot abide the smell of hot meat. 
Uha/f., M. W. of W., i. 3. 
11 
As for disappointing them, I shouldn't so much mind, 
lint I can't nliiili- tn disappoint myself. 
(joldmnith, She Stoops to Conquer, i. 1. 
5f. To encounter; undergo: in a jocular 
sense, [f] 
I wil give hym the alder-beste 
uifte, that ever he abode hys lyve. 
Chaiifer, Dethe of Blaunche, 1. 247. 
II. intrans. 1. To have one's abode ; dwell; 
reside. 
In the noiseless air and light that flowed 
Round your fair brows, eternal Peace alunle. 
Jlri/aiit, To the Apennines. 
2. To remain ; continue to stay. 
Kxcept these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved. 
Acts xxvii. 31. 
Here no mau can abide, except he be ready with all his 
heart to humble himself for the love of God. 
Thomas a Kempu, Int. of Christ, i. 17. 
3. To continue in a certain condition ; remain 
steadfast or faithful. 
But she is happier if she so alridr [in widowhood], 
1 Cor. vii. 40. 
4f. To wait ; stop ; delay. 
He hasteth wel that wysly kali abydr. 
Chaucer, Troilus, i 949. 
5. To inhere ; belong as an attribute or qual- 
ity ; have its seat. 
Though far more cause, yet much less spirit to curse 
Abides in me. Shot., Rich. III., iv. 4. 
To abide by. (n) To remain at rest beside : as, "abide 
by thy crib,' Job xxxix. 9. (b) To adhere to ; maintain ; 
defend ; stand to : as, to abide by a friend. Specifically, 
in Scots law, to adhere to as true and genuine : said of 
the party who relies upon a deed or writing which the 
other party desires to have reduced or declared null and 
void, on the ground of forgery or falsehood, (c) To await 
or accept the consequences of ; rest satisfied with : as, to 
abide by the event or issue. = SyTL 1 and 2. Abide, 
Sojourn, Continue, Dwell, Reiride, Live, remain, stay, 
stop, lodge, settle, settle down, tarry, linger. Line is the 
most general word : to pass one's life, without indicating 
p_lace, time, or manner. Abide, sojourn, to stay for a 
time length of stay being associated in the mind with 
the former, and briefness or shortness of stay with the 
latter. Continue, to stay on, without interval of absence. 
Dwell, to be domiciled. Reside, to have one's home ; dwell. 
And if these pleasures may thee move, 
Then live with me and be my love. 
Marlowe, Shepherd to his Love. 
Thou who changest not, abide with me ! Lyte. 
A certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in 
the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. 
. . . And they came into the country of Moab, and con- 
tinued there. Ruth i, 1, 2. 
And Moses was content to dwell with the man. 
Exod. ii. 21. 
There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Ma- 
riana. Shak., M. for M., iii. 1. 
abide 2 (a-bid'), . t. [This word in the sense 
of ' suffer for ' does not occur much earlier than 
Shakspere's time. It is a corruption of ME. 
abyeii, pay for, due to confusion with abidel, 
wait for (as if that sense were equivalent to 
'endure'): see further under aby 1 , and cf. 
abide 1 , v. t., 4.] To pay the price or penalty 
of ; suffer for. 
If it be found so, some will dear abide it. 
Shak., 3. C., iii. 2. 
Ah me ! they little know 
How dearly I abide that boast so vain. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 86. 
abident. Old perfect participle of abide 1 . 
abider (a-bi'der), n. [<abidel + -!.] One 
who dwells or continues ; one who lives or 
resides. 
abiding (a-bi'ding), p. a. [Ppr. of abide*.] 
Continuing ; permanent ; steadfast : as, an 
abiding faith. 
Here thou hast no abiding city. 
Thomas a Kempis, Im. of Christ, ii. 1. 
1 do not think that Pope's verse anywhere sings, but it 
should seem that the abiding presence of fancy in his best 
work forbids his exclusion from the rank of poet. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 432. 
abidingly (a-bl'ding-li), adv. In an abiding 
manner; enduringly; lastingly; permanently, 
abiding-place (a-bi'ding-plas), . [< abiding, 
verbal n. of abide 1 , + place.] A place where 
one abides ; a permanent dwelling-place ; hence, 
a place of rest ; a resting-place. 
A very charming little abiding-place. 
H. Jamei, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 41. 
Many of these plants . . . found suitable abiding- 
places at the South. Science, III. 369. 
Abies (ab'i-ez), n. [L. abies (abiet-), the silver 
fir; origin unknown.] A genus of trees, the 
firs, of the suborder Abietineai, natural order 
Conifero!, some of which are valuable for their 
timber. It differs from Pinm in its solitary leaves and 
in the thin scales of its cones, which ripen the first year. 
From the allied genera Picea, Tsuga, etc., with which 
it has sometimes been united, it is distinguished by its 
Hiisrly sessile leaves, by the bracts of the female aments 
being much larger than the scales, and by having erect 
i-oni's with deciduous scales. It includes 16 or 18 species. 
ability 
confined to tin- northern hemisphere. ;nnl i -iinully divided 
bttweeu the nld ami in-w worlds. To it lieloliK t] 
ver llrof central Europe (.4. i*ftn,:it'i\, the lialsam-flr of 
eastern North America (A. balsainea), the red and white 
firs of western America (.1 gran and nubia*), 
the saereil ttr of Mexieo < .1 
abietene (ab'i-e-ten). n. [< L. abies (obttt-), 
the fir, + -ene.] A hydrocarbon obtained by 
distillation from the resin of the nut-pine 
of California, I'liius tiiibiiiiiiitii. it eoimuu almost 
wholly of normal heptane. I' 7 H 19 , and is a nearly color 
less mobile liquid, having a strong aromatic smell, highly 
intkimmahlc, and burning with a white, smokeless flame 
abietic (ab-i-et'ik), n. [< L. abies (abiet-), the 
fir, + -ic.] Of or pertaining to trees of the 
genus Abies; derived from the fir. Abietic 
acid, CfnH*oO an acid obtained from the resin of some 
species of pine, larch, and fir. These resins are anhydrids 
of abietic acid or mixtures containing it. 
abietin (ab'i-e-tin), . [< L. abies (abiet-), the 
fir, H- -in 2 .] A tasteless, inodorous resin, de- 
rived from the turpentine obtained from some 
species of the genus Abies. 
Abietineae (ab*i-e-tin'e-e), n. pi. [NL., < L. 
abies (abiet-), the'fir, +' --.] A suborder of 
the natural order ('oniferce, distinguished by 
bearing strobiles (cones) with two inverted 
ovules at the base of each scale, which become 
winged samaroid seeds. The leaves are linear or 
needle-shaped, and never two- 
ranked. It includes many of 
the most valuable kinds of tim- 
ber-trees, viz., pine (Pin us). 
true cedar (Cedrus), spruce (J'i- 
cea), hemlock-spruce (Tsuga), 
Douglas'sspruce(/"*(!do<t(^(i), 
fir (Abies), and larch (Larix). 
abietinic (ab'i-e-tin'ik), 
a. Pertaining to or de- 
rived from abietin: as, 
abietinic acid. 
abietite (ab'i-e-tit), . 
[< L. abies (abiet-), the fir, 
T -te 2 .] A sugar, C 6 H 8 O 3 , 
obtained from the needles 
of the European silver fir, 
Abies pectinata. 
Abietites (ab'i-e-ti'tez), 
n. [NL., pi. (sc. plantce), 
< L. abies (abiet-), the fir.] A genus of fossil 
plants, natural order Conifers, occurring in the 
Wealden and Lower Greensand strata. 
Abigail (ab'i-gal), n^ [< Abigail, the "waiting 
, ) Stamiaateaad (3) pistil- 
late inflorescence of the pine ; 
(3) a pistillate scale, and (4) 
the same showing a longitudi- 
nal section of the ovules. 
gentlewoman" in Beaumont and Fletcher's 
play of "The Scornful Lady" so named, 
perhaps, in allusion to the expression "thine 
handmaid," applied to herself by Abigail, the 
wife of Nabal, when carrying provisions to 
David : see 1 Sam. xxv. 2-41.] A general name 
for a waiting-woman or lady's-maid. [Colloq.] 
Sometimes written as a common noun, with- 
out a capital. 
The Abigail, by immemorial custom, being a deodand, 
and belonging to holy Church. 
Reply to Ladift and Bachelors Petition, 1694 
(Harl. Misc., IV. 440). 
I myself have seen one of these male Abigails tripping 
about the room with a looking-glass in his hand and 
combing his lady's hair a whole morning together. 
Spectator. 
abigeat (ab-ij'e-at), n. [< OF. abigeat, < L. 
abigeatus. cattle-stealing, < abigeus, a cattle- 
stealer, < abigere, drive away : see abactor. 
For the second sense (6), cf. L. abiga, a plant 
which has the power of producing abortion, 
< abigere, as above.] In law : (a) The crime 
of stealing or driving off cattle in droves, (b) 
A miscarriage procured by art. 
abiliatet (a-biri-at), v. t. [For abilitate; or 
irreg. formed from able, L. habilis, ML. (h)abi- 
Ks.l To enable. Bacon. [Bare.] 
abilimentt (a-bil'i-ment), n. [Var. of habili- 
ment, q. v.] "Ability:" as, "abilimentto steer a 
kingdom," Ford, Broken Heart, v. 2. 
abilimentst, pi- Same as habiliments. 
abilitatet (a-bil'i-tat). r. t. [<ML. habilitatus, 
pp. of habititare (> OF. habileter, liabiliter), ren- 
der able, < habilis, able : see able 1 .] To assist. 
\icholas Ferrar. 
ability (a-bil'i-ti), n. [< ME. abilite (four syl- 
lables), '<: OF." habilite (ME. also ablete, < OF. 
ablete), < L. habilita(t-)s, ML. abiUta(t-)s, apt- 
ness, < habilis, apt, able : see able 1 .] 1. The 
state or condition of being able ; power or 
capacity to do or act in any relation ; compe- 
tence in any occupation or field of action, from 
the possession of capacity, skill, means, or 
other qualification. 
They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the 
work. Ezra ii. 69. 
Alas ! what poor 
Ability's iu me to do him good? 
Shot.. M. for U., i. 5. 
