APage 10
- 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 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 Abbreviator Definition One who abbreviates or shortens.
- 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.