ABO 
linen, corn, and planks. ' It lies 140 miles north-eaft from 
Stockholm. Lat. 60. 27. Ion. 22. iS. E. 
ABOARD, adv. a fea-term, but adopted into common 
language; [derived immediately from the French a bord, 
as alter a bord, envoyer a bord. ] Bord is itfelf a word of very 
doubtful original, and perhaps, in its different accepta¬ 
tions, deducible from different roots. Bord, in the ancient 
Saxon-, lignified a houfe-, in.which fen k to go aboard, is to 
take up refidence hi a fhip. Hence any perfon who enters a 
fhip is faid to go aboard; but when an enemy enters in the 
time of battle, he is faid to board ; a phrafe which always 
implies hoftility.—To fall aboard of, is to (frike or encoun¬ 
ter another fhip when one or both are in motion, or to be 
driven upon a fhip by the force of the wind or current.— 
Aboard main-tack, the order to draw the main-tack, i. e. 
the lower corner of the main-fail, down to the chess-tree. 
ABODE,/. Habitation, dwelling, place of refidence: 
Others may ufe the ocean as their road. 
Only the Englifn make it their abode-, 
Whofe ready fails with every wind can fly, 
And make a cov’nant with th’ inconflant iky. Waller. 
Stay, continuance in a place : 
The woodcocks early vifit, and abode 
Of long continuance in our temperate clime, 
Fore tel a liberal harvefl. Phillips. 
To make abode. To dwell, to refide, to inhabit. 
To ABODE, v. a. [See Bode.] To foretoken or ,fore- 
fliow; to be a prognoftic, to be ominous. It is taken, with 
its derivatives, in the fenfe either of good or ill. 
ABODEMENT,/. A fecret anticipation of fomething 
future; an impreflion upon the mind of fome event to 
come; prognoffication; omen: 
I like not this. 
For many men that (fumble at the threfhold; 
Are well foretold that danger lurks within.—■ 
—Tufh! man, abodements muff not now affright us. 
Shakefpeare. 
To ABOLISH, v. a. \_aboleo, Lat.] To annul; to make 
void: applied to laws or inffitutions. To put an end to, 
to deflroy.—Fermented fpirits contract, harden, and con- 
folidate, many fibres together, abolifhing many canals; eIm¬ 
perially where the fibres are the tendered, as in the brain. 
Arbuthnct. 
ABOLISHABLE, adj. That which may be aboliflied. 
ABOLISHER,/ He that abolifhes. 
ABOLISHMENT, / The aft of abolifhing. . 
ABOLITION,/. The aft of abolifhing. This is now 
more frequently ufed than abolifhment. —An apoplexy is a 
hidden abolition of all the lenfes, and of all voluntary mo¬ 
tion, by the lloppage of the flux and reflux of the animal 
fpirits through the nerves deftined for thofe motions. Ar- 
buthnot. 
ABOLLA,/ a kind of garment worn by the Greeks 
and Romans, chiefly out of the city, in following the camp. 
—Critics and antiquaries are greatly divided as to the form, 
life, kinds, &c. of this garment. Papias makes it a fpecies 
of the toga, or gown; but Nonius, and the generality, a 
fpecies of the pallium, or cloak. The abolla feems rather 
to have (food oppofed to the toga, which was a garment of 
peace, as the abolla was of war; at leaf! Varro and Martial 
place them in this oppofite light. There feem to have been 
different kinds of abollas, fitted to different occafions. 
Even kings appear to have ufed the abolla: Caligula was 
aff ronted at king Ptolemy for appearing at the fhows in a 
purple-abolla, and by the eclat thereof turning the eyes of 
the fperiators from the emperor upon himfelf. 
ABOMASUS, Abomasum, Abomasius,/. names of 
the fourth ffomach of ruminating animals. It is in the 
abomafus of calves and lambs that the runnet is formed 
Wherewith milk is curdled. 
ABOMINABLE, adj. \_abcminabilis , Lat.] Hateful, de- 
teffable; to be loathed. Unclean. In low and ludicrous 
language, it is a word of loofe and indeterminate cenfure. 
ABO 
ABOMINABLENESS, /. The quality of being abo¬ 
minable; hatefulnefs, odioufnefs.-—Till we have proved, 
in its proper place, the eternal and effential difference be¬ 
tween virtue and vice, we muff forbear to urge atheifls with 
the corruption and abominablenfs of their principles. Bentley. 
ABOMINABLY, adv. A word of low or familiar lan¬ 
guage, fignifying exceflively, extremely, exceedingly; in 
an ill fenfe. It is not often ferioufly ufed. 
To ABOMINATE, v. a. \_abominor , Lat.] To abhor, 
deteff, hate utterly.—Pride goes hated, curfed, and abo¬ 
minated by all. Hammond. 
ABOMINATION,/! Hatred, detefiation. Theobjefft 
of hatred. Pollution, defilement. Wickednefs; hateful 
or fhameful vice. The caufe of pollution. 
It is ufed in fcrip'ture wi/i regard to the Hebrews, 
who, being fliepherds, are faid to have been an abomination 
to the Egyptians, becaufe they facrificed'the facred ani¬ 
mals of that people, as oxen, goats, fheep, See. which the 
Egyptians effeemed as abominations, or things unlawful. 
The term is alfo applied in the facred writings to idolatry 
and idols, becaufe the worfhip of idols is in itfelf an abo¬ 
minable thing, and at the fame time ceremonies obferved 
by idolaters were always attended with licentioufnefs and' 
other odious and abominable actions. The abomination of 
deflation, foretold by the prophet Daniel, is fuppofed to 
imply the ffatue of Jupiter Olympius, which Antiochus 
Epiphanes eaufed to be placed in the temple of Jerufalem. 
And the abomination of deflation, mentioned by the Evan- 
gelifts, fignifies the enfigns of the Romans, during the lafl 
iiege of Jerufalem by Titus, on whom the figures of their 
gods and emperors were embroidered, and placed upon 
the temple after it was taken. 
ABORAM, a fmall ifland on the coaff of Morocco, 
whofe inhabitants live chiefly by fifhing. 
ABORIGINES,/'. [Lat.] The earlieft inhabitants of a 
country; thofe of whom no original is to be traced; as, 
the Welfh in Britain. Dionyfius HalicarnafTus, Livy, and 
Virgil, gave this name to a certain people in Italy, who in¬ 
habited the ancient Latium, or country now called Cam- 
pagna di Roma. Whence this people came by the appella¬ 
tion, is much difputed. St. Jerom fays they were fo called, 
as being abfque origine, the primitive planters of the country 
after the flood: Dion of HalicarnafTus accounts for the 
name, as denoting them the founders of the race of inha¬ 
bitants of that country: others think them fo called, as 
being originally Arcadians, who claimed to be earth-born, 
and not defeended from any people. Aurelius Viftor fug- 
gefts another opinion, viz. that they were called Aborigines , 
q. d . Aberrigines, from ab “ from,” and errare “to wan¬ 
der:” as having been before a wandering people. Pau- 
fanias rather thinks they were thus called cesro open, from 
“mountains;” which opinion feems confirmed by Virgil, 
who, fpeaking of Saturn, the legiflator of this people, fays. 
Is genus indocile ac difpenfum montibas altis 
Compofuit , legefque dedit. -- 
The Aborigines were either the original inhabitants of the 
country, fettled there by Janus, as fome imagine; or by 
Saturn, or Cham, as others; not long after the difperfion, 
or even, as fome think, before it: or they were a colony 
fent from fome other nation; who, expelling the ancient 
inhabitants the Siculi, fettled in their place. The term 
Aborigines, though fo famous in antiquity, is ufed in mo¬ 
dern geography only occafionally as an appellative. It is- 
given to the primitive inhabitants of any country, in con- 
tradiftinriion to colonies, or new races of people. 
To ABORT, v. n. \_aborto, Lat.] To bring forth before 
the time; to mifearry. 
ABORTION,/, [abortio, Lat.] The ari: of bringing 
forth untimely; the produce of an untimely birth; 111 
which fenfe it is ufed for the unfeafonable exclufion of an 
iinperferi human foetus, either alive or dead, before the 
natural time of delivery. 
if abortion happens before the fecond month of preg¬ 
nancy, it is called a falfe conception. Abortions are feldom 
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