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- English Word Abbreviation Definition The act of shortening, or reducing.
- English Word Abbreviation Definition The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
- English Word Abbreviation Definition The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
- English Word Abbreviation Definition One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
- English Word Abbreviator Definition One who abbreviates or shortens.
- English Word Abbreviator Definition One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
- English Word Abbreviatory Definition Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
- English Word Abbreviature Definition An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.
- English Word Abbreviature Definition An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.
- English Word Abdal Definition A religious devotee or dervish in Persia.
- English Word Abderian Definition Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.
- English Word Abderite Definition An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace.
- English Word Abdest Definition Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite.
- English Word Abdicable Definition Capable of being abdicated.
- English Word Abdicant Definition Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of.
- English Word Abdicant Definition One who abdicates.
- English Word Abdicate Definition To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.
- English Word Abdicate Definition To renounce; to relinquish; -- said of authority, a trust, duty, right, etc.
- English Word Abdicate Definition To reject; to cast off.
- English Word Abdicate Definition To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.
- English Word Abdicate Definition To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity.
- English Word Abdicated Definition of Abdicate
- English Word Abdicating Definition of Abdicate
- English Word Abdication Definition The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.
- English Word Abdicative Definition Causing, or implying, abdication.
- English Word Abdicator Definition One who abdicates.
- English Word Abditive Definition Having the quality of hiding.
- English Word Abditory Definition A place for hiding or preserving articles of value.
- English Word Abdomen Definition The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.
- English Word Abdomen Definition The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.