ABUSER
ABU'SER, noun s as z. One who abuses, in speech or behavior; one that deceives; a ravisher; a sodomite. 1 Corinthians 6:9.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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ABUSING
ABU'SING, participle present tense s as z. Using ill; employing to bad purposes; deceiving; violating the person; perverting.
ABUSION
ABU'SION, noun abu'zhon. Abuse; evil or corrupt usage; reproach. [Little used.]
ABUSIVE
ABU'SIVE, adjective1. Practicing abuse; offering harsh words, or ill treatment; as an abusive author; an abusive fellow.2. Containing abuse, or that is the instrument of abuse, ...
ABUSIVELY
ABU'SIVELY, adverb In an abusive manner; rudely; reproachfully.
ABUSIVENESS
ABU'SIVENESS, noun Ill-usage; the quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.
ABUT
ABUT', verb intransitive To border upon; to be contiguous to; to meet; in strictness, to adjoin to at the end; but this distinction has not always been observed. The word is chi...
ABUTMENT
ABUT'MENT, noun1. The head or end; that which unites one end of a thing to another; chiefly used to denote the solid pier or mound of earth, stone or timber, which is erected on...
ABUTTAL
ABUT'TAL, noun The butting or boundary of land at the end; a head-land.
ABY
ABY', verb transitive or i. [Probably contracted from abide.] To endure; to pay dearly; to remain. obsolete
ABYSM
ABYSM', noun abyzm'. [See Abyss.] A gulf.
ABYSS
ABYSS', noun [Gr. bottomless, from a priv. and bottom, Ion. See Bottom.]1. A bottomless gulf; used also for a deep mass of waters, supposed by some to have encompassed the earth...
ABYSSINIAN
ABYSSIN'IAN, adjective A name denoting a mixed multitude or a black race.
ABYSSINIANS
ABYSSIN'IANS, noun A sect of christians in Abyssinia, who admit but one nature in Jesus Christ, and reject the council of Chalcedon. They are governed by a bishop, or metropolit...
AC
AC, in Saxon, oak, the initial syllable of names, as acton, oaktown.
ACACALOT
ACAC'ALOT, noun A Mexican fowl, the Tantalus Mexicanus, or
ACACIA
ACA'CIA, noun [Latin acacia a thorn, from Gr., a point.]Egyptian thorn, a species of plant ranked by Linne under the genus mimosa, and by others, made a distinct genus. Of the f...
ACACIANS
ACA'CIANS, in Church History, were certain sects, so denominated from their leaders, Acacius, bishop of Cesarea, and Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople. Some of these maintain...
ACADEME
ACADE'MEnoun an academy; a society of persons. [Not used.]
ACADEMIAL
ACADE'MIAL, a Pertaining to an academy.
ACADEMIAN
ACADE'MIAN, noun A member of an academy; a student in a university or college.
ACADEMIC
ACADEM'IC, adjective Belonging to an academy, or to a college or ACADEM'ICAL, university - as academic studies; also noting what belongs to the school or philosophy of Plato - a...
ACADEMICALLY
ACADEM'ICALLY, adverb In an academical manner.
ACADEMICIAN
ACADEMI'CIAN, noun a member of an academy, or society for promoting arts and sciences; particularly, a member of the French academies.
ACADEMISM
ACAD'EMISM, noun The doctrine of the academic philosophy.
ACADEMIST
ACAD'EMIST, noun a member of an Academy for promoting arts and sciences; also an academic philosopher.
ACADEMY
ACAD'EMY, noun [Latin academia.] Originally, it is said, a garden, grove, or villa, near Athens, where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences.1. A school, ...