Emily Dickinson Lexicon

A'BLY, adv.

In an able manner; with great ability.

AB'NE-GATE, v.t.

To deny.

AB-NE-GA'TION, n. [L. abnego, to deny, from ab and nego; W. naca, nacau; Sw. neka, to deny; W. nac, no; Eng. nay; L. nee, not; Ir. wick, not.]

A denial; a renunciation; self-denial. Hammond.

AB'NE-GA-TOR, n.

One who denies, renounces, or opposes any thing. Sandys.

AB'NET, n.

The girdle of a Jewish priest.

AB'NO-DATE, v.t.

To cut knots from trees.

AB-NO-DA'TION, n. [L. abnodo; ab and nodus, a knot.]

The act of cutting away the knots of trees. Dict.

AB-NORM'AL, or AB-NORM'OUS, a. [L. abnormis, supra.]

Irregular; deformed. Dict.

AB-NORM'I-TY, n. [L. abnormis, irregular; ab and sienna, a rule.]

Irregularity; deformity. Dict.

A-BOARD', adv. [a for on and board. See Board.]

Within a ship, vessel, or boat. To go aboard, to enter a ship, to embark. To fall aboard, to strike a ship's side. Aboard main tack, an order to draw a corner of the main-sail down to the chess-tree. Encyc. Mar. Dict.

A-BOD'ANCE, n. [from bode.]

An omen. [Not used.] Johnson.

A-BODE', pret.

of abide.

A-BODE', n. [See Abide.]

1. Stay; continuance in a place; residence for a longer or shorter time.
2. A place of continuance; a dwelling; a habitation.
3. To make abode, to dwell or reside.

A-BODE', v.i.

To be an omen. Dryden.

A-BODE', v.t. [See Bode.]

To foreshow. Sloth.

A-BODE'MENT, n. [from bode.]

A secret anticipation of something future.

A-BOD'-ING, n.

Presentiment; prognostication. Hall.

A-BOL'ISH, v.t. [Fr. abolir; aboleo I; from ab and oleo, olesco, to grow.]

1. To make void; to annul; to abrogate; applied chiefly and appropriately to established laws, contracts, rites, customs and institutions; as, to abolish laws by a repeal, actual or virtual.
2. To destroy, or put an end to; as, to abolish idols, Isa. ii.; to abolish death, Tim. i. This sense is not common. To abolish posterity, in the translation of Pausimias, lib. 3, ca. 6, is hardly allowable.

A-BOL'ISH-A-BLE, a.

That may be annulled, abrogated, or destroyed, as a law, rite, custom, &c.

A-BOL'ISH-ED, pp.

Annulled; repealed; abrogated, or destroyed.

A-BOL'ISH-ER, n.

One who abolishes.

A-BOL'ISH-ING, ppr.

Making void; annulling; destroying,

A-BOL'ISH-MENT, a.

The act of annulling; abrogation: destruction. Hooker.

A-BOL-I'TION, n. abolish'un.

1. The act of abolishing; or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances rites, customs, debts, &c.
2. The putting an end to slavery; emancipation. The application of this word to persons and things, is now unusual or obsolete. To abolish persons, canals and senses, the language of good writers formerly, is no longer legitimate.

AB-O-LI'TION-ISM, n.

The principles of an abolitionist.