abusiont (abuzhon)

[ Redre the abusions and exactions. Act of Parl . No. xxxiii. (23 Hen. VIII.). Shame light on him, that through so false illusion, Doth turne the name of Souldiers to abusion . Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 220. 2. Reproachful or contumelious language; insult.-3. Deceit; illusion. They speken of magic and abusion . Chaucer, Man of Law's Tale, 1. 116. abusive (a-bū'siv), a. [= F. abusif = Sp. Pg. It. abusivo , abūsīvus , misapplied, improper, abūti , pp. abūsus , misuse: see abuse , v.] 1. Practising abuse; using harsh words or ill treatment: as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.-2. Characterized by or containing abuse; marked by contumely or ill use; harsh; ill natured; injurious. An abusive , scurrilous style pa es for satire, and a dull scheme of party notions is called fine writing. Add is on , Spectator, No. 125. One from all Grub-street will my fame defend, And, more abusive , calls himself my friend. Pope, Prol. to Satires, 1. 112, 3. Marked by or full of abuses; corrupt: as, an abusive exercise of power. A very extensive and zealous party was formed [in France), which acquired the appellation of the Patriotic party, who, sensible of the abusive government under which they lived, sighed for occasions of reforming it. Jefferson, Autobiog., p. 56. 4t. Misleading, or tending to mislead; employed by misuse; improper. In describing these battles, I am, for distinction sake, nece itated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive accept i on thereof for these latter years. Fuller , Worthies, I. xviii. = Syn. 1 and 2. Insolent, insulting, offensive, scurrilous, ribald, reproachful, opprobrious, reviling. abusively (a-bū'siv-li), adv . 1. In an abusive manner; rudely; reproachfully.-2t. Improperly; by misuse. Words being carele ly and abusively admitted, and as inconstantly retained. Glanville , Van, of Dogmat., xvii. abusivene (a-bū'siv-nes), n. The quality of being abusive; rudene of language, or violence to the person; ill usage. abut (a-but'), v.; pret. and pp. abutted, ppr. "abutting. [ME. abutten, abouten, it represents the OF. abouter, in the sense of IMG:content-0103.png:[graphic] 'thrust toward.'] I. in trans. 1. To touch at the end; be contiguous; join at a border or boundary; terminate; rest: with on, upon , or against before the object: as, his land abuts upon mine; the building abuts on the highway; the bridge abuts against the solid rock. Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous, narrow ocean parts asunder. Shak ., Hen. V., i. (cho.). Steam is constantly i uing in jets from the bottom of a small ravine-like hollow, which has no exit, and which abuts against a range of trachytic mountains. Darwin, Geol. Observations, i. 2. In the last resort all these questions of physical speculation abut upon a metaphysical question. W. K. Clifford , Lectures, I. 243. The lustrous splendor of the walls abutting upon the Grand Canal. D. G. Mitchell, Bound Together, ii. The term 2. In ship - building , same as butt1 , 3. - Abutting owner, an owner of land which abuts or joins. Thus, the owner of land bounded by a highway or river, or by a tract of land belonging to another person, is said in reference to the latter to be an abutting owner. usually implies that the relative parts actually adjoin, but is sometimes loosely used without implying more than close proximity. - Abutting power (in an active sense), the ability of an abutment to resist the thrust or strain of the arch, gas, fluid, etc., pre ing or reacting against it. - Abutting joint. See abutment , 2 (b) (2). which abuts or borders on some- thing else; the part abutting or abutted upon or against. Spe- cifically - (a) Any body or surface de- signed to resist the thrust or reaction of any material structure, vapor, gas, or liquid that may pre upon it; par- ticularly, in arch ., the portion of a pier or other structure that receives the thrust of an arch or vault; in eng in ., abutment-crane (a-but'ment-krān), n. [ crane , 2.] A hoisting-crane or der- rick used in building piers, towers, chim- neys, etc. It stands at the edge of a platform rest- ing on the top of the work, and may be gradually raised as the work dwelling among the oaks; Acley or Ackley , also Oakley [AS. Acled ], literally, oak-lea. ac-. A prefix, a imilated form of ad- before c and q, as in accede, acquire, etc.; also an ac- commo dated form of other prefixes, as in ac- curse, accloy, accumber, etc. See these words. -ac. [F.- aque , cardiac , maniac , iliac , etc. It is always pre- ceded by -iand, like -ic, may take the add i- abysmal (a-biz'mal), a . [ abysm + -al ; = Sp. Pg. abismal.] 1. Pertaining to an aby ; bot- tomle ; profound; fathomle ; immeasurable. Let me hear thy voice through this deep and black Abysmal night. The... Jews were struck dumb with abysmal terror. Merivale, Hist. Rom., V. 410. Specifically -2. Pertaining to great depths in the ocean: thus, species of plants found only at great depths are called abysmal species, and also aby al (which see). abysmally (a-biz'mal-i), adv . Unfathomably. George Eliot . aby (a-bis'), n. [L. a by us, ML. abi us (> Pg. It. abi o ), a bottomle gulf, a -priv. + βυσσός , depth, akin to βυθός and βάθος , depth, βαθύς , deep: see bathos.] 1. A bottomle gulf; any deep, im- measurable space; anything profound and un- fathomable, whether literally or figuratively; specifically, hell; the bottomle pit. Some laboured to fathom the aby es of metaphysical theology. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., iii. 2. In her ., the center of an escutcheon; the fe e-point. aby (a-bis'), v. t. [ aby ed , Far and more far the wave's receding shocks. aby al (a-bis'al), a. 1. Relating to or like an aby ; abysmal.-2. Inhabiting or belonging to the depths of the ocean: as, an aby al mol- lusk. Both cla es of animals, the pelagic and the aby al ,... po e the feature of phosphorescence. The American , V. 285. ical zones into which Profe or E. Forbes divided the bottom of the Ægean sea when describing its plants and animals; the zone furthest from the shore, and more than 105 fathoms deep. A by i net, a. and n. [Also Abi ine , Aba ine ; as a noun, usually in pl. Aby ines , etc., = F. Aby ins = Sp. Abisinios = Pg. Abexins ; A ba in i , Aby in i ans (> Abi inia , A ba in i a , Aby in i a), Aba ia , Habasha , Aby in i a, Habash , an Aby in i an, said to have reference to the mixed composition of the peo- ple, habash , mixture. The natives call them- selves Itiopyavan , their country Itiopia , i. e., Ethiopia.] Same as Aby in i an . Aby in i an (ab-i-sin'i-an), a. and n. [ Abys- sine ( Aby in i a ) + -ian.] I. a. Belonging to Aby in i a, a country of eastern Africa, lying to the south of Nubia, or to its inhabitants. II. n. 1. A native or an inhabitant of Abys- sinia. Specifically -2. A member of the Abys- sinian Church. This church was organized about the from Alexandria. In doctrine it is Monophysite (which see). It observes the Jewish Sabbath together with the Christian Sunday, forbids eating the flesh of unclean beasts, retains as an object of worship the model of a sa- cred ark called the ark of Zion, practises a form of cir- cumcision, and celebrates a yearly feast of lustration, at which all the people are rebaptized. The Aby in i ans honor saints and pictures, but not images; cro es, but not crucifixes. Pontius Pilate is accounted by them a saint because he washed his hands of innocent bloodter The dination. The abuna, or head of the Aby in i an Church, is appointed by the patriarch of Alexandria. abzug (ab'zög; G. pron. äp'tsöch), ), n. [G., ab- , = E. off , + ziehen , re- lated to E. tug and tow1 .] In metal ., the first scum appearing on the surface of lead in the cupel. Nearly equivalent to abstrich (which see). IMG:content-0104.png:[graphic][merged small][merged small] acacy Tennyson, Prince , ii. Hence-2. [ l . c.] An academy; a place for phil- osophic and literary intercourse or instruction. Nor hath fair Europe her vast bounds throughout An academe of note I found not out. no more De Quincey , Style, iii. 3. Pertaining to that department of a college or university which is concerned with cla i- cal, mathematical, and general literary studies, mathematic as distinguished from the profe ional and sci- entific departments; designed for general as opposed to special instruction. [U. S.]-4. Of or pertaining to an academy or a ociation of adepts; marked by or belonging to the char- acter or methods of such an academy; hence, conforming to set rules and traditions; specu- lative; formal; conventional: as, academical proceedings; an academical controversy; an ac- ademic figure (in art). any longer?" Figure of academic proportions, in painting, a figure of a little le than half the natural size, such as it is the custom for pupils to draw from the antique and from life; also, a figure in an attitude resembling those chosen by instructors in studies from life, for the purpose of display ing muscular action, form, and color best advantage; hence, an academic figure, composition, etc., is one which appears conventional or uns pont a neo us, and smacks of practice-work or adherence to formulas and traditions. II. n. 1. [cap.] One who profe ed to adhere to the philosophy of Plato. - 2. A student in a college or university: as, "a young academic," Watts, Imp. of Mind.