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Ability
() The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent.
Abime
() Alt. of Abyme
Abyme
() A abyss.
Abiogenesis
() The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.
Abiogenetic
() Of or pertaining to abiogenesis.
Abiogenist
() One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent.
Abiogenous
() Produced by spontaneous generation.
Abiogeny
() Same as Abiogenesis.
Abiological
() Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.
Abirritant
() A medicine that diminishes irritation.
Abirritate
() To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate.
Abirritation
() A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.
Abirritative
() Characterized by abirritation or debility.
Abit
() 3d sing. pres. of Abide.
Abject
() Cast down; low-lying.
Abject
() Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
Abject
() To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
Abject
() A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.
Abjectedness
() A very abject or low condition; abjectness.
Abjection
() The act of bringing down or humbling.
Abjection
() The state of being rejected or cast out.
Abjection
() A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
Abjectly
() Meanly; servilely.
Abjectness
() The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.
Abjudge
() To take away by judicial decision.
Abjudicate
() To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge.
Abjudication
() Rejection by judicial sentence.
Abjugate
() To unyoke.
Abjunctive
() Exceptional.
Abjuration
() The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.
Abjuration
() A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy.
Abjuratory
() Containing abjuration.
Abjured
() of Abjure
Abjuring
() of Abjure
Abjure
() To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.
Abjure
() To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors.
Abjure
() To renounce on oath.
Abjurement
() Renunciation.
Abjurer
() One who abjures.
Ablactate
() To wean.
Ablactation
() The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam.
Ablactation
() The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.
Ablaqueate
() To lay bare, as the roots of a tree.
Ablaqueation
() The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water.
Ablastemic
() Non-germinal.
Ablation
() A carrying or taking away; removal.
Ablation
() Extirpation.
Ablation
() Wearing away; superficial waste.
Ablatitious
() Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force.
Ablative
() Taking away or removing.