abhorrent (abhorent)

[L. abhorren ( t- ) s, ppr. of abhorrere: see abhor.] 1. Hating; detesting; struck with abhorrence. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Glover, Leonidas, x. IMG:content-0061.png:[blocks in formation] 11 As for disappointing them, I shouldn't so much mind, but I can't abide to disappoint myself. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, i. 1. 5t. To encounter; undergo: in a jocular sense. [?] ability confined to the northern hemisphere, and equally divided between the old and new worlds. To it belong the silver fir of central Europe ( A. pectin at a ), the balsam-fir of eastern North America ( A. balsamea ), the red and white firs of western America ( A. grand is, concolor, and nobilis ), the sacred fir of Mexico ( A. religiosa ), etc. See fir. abietene (ab'i-e-ten), n. [L. abies ( abiet- ), the fir, + -ene.] A hydrocarbon obtained by distillation from the resin of the nut-pine II. in trans. 1. To have one's abode; dwell; of California, Pinus Sabin i an a. It consists almost reside. I wil give hym the alder-beste Gifte, that ever he abode hys lyve. Chaucer, Dethe of Blaunche, 1. 247. In the noisele air and light that flowed Round your fair brows, eternal Peace abode . Bryant , To the A pennines. 2. To remain; continue to stay. Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved. Acts xxvii. 31. Here no man can abide, except he be ready with all his heart to humble himself for the love of God. Thomas à Kempis , Im. of Christ, i. 17. wholly of normal heptane, C7H16, and is a nearly colorle mobile liquid, having a strong aromatic smell, highly inflammable, and burning with a white, smokele flame. abietic (ab-i-et'ik), a. [L. abies ( abiet- ), the fir, + -ic.] Of or pertaining to trees of the genus Abies; derived from the fir.-Abietic acid, C20H3002, an acid obtained from the resin of some species of pine, larch, and fir. These resins are an hydrids of abietic acid or mixtures containing it.