Emily Dickinson Lexicon

A-BUND'ANT, a.

Plentiful: in great quantity; fully sufficient; as, an abundant supply. In Scripture, abounding; having in great quantity; overflowing with. The Lord God is abundant in goodness and truth. – Ex. xxxii. Abundant number, in arithmetic, is one, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the aliquot parts of 12, make the sum of 16. This is opposed to a digital number, as 14, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2, 7, the sum of which is 10; and to a perfect number, which is equal to the sum of its aliquot parts, as 6, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2, 3.