a biogenous (abiojenus)

devour, abitan, bite.] To bite; eat; vour. abitiont (ab-ish'on), n. [L. abitio(n-), abject (ab'jekt), a. and n. [ So thick bestrown, Abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, Under amazement of their hideous change. Milton , P. L., i. 312. 2. Low in condition or in estimation; utterly humiliating or disheartening; so low as to be hopele : as, abject poverty, disgrace, or ser vitude.-3. Low in kind or character; mean; despicable; servile; groveling. Or in this abject posture have ye sworn To adore the conqueror? Milton , P. L., 1. 322. =Syn. 3. Abject, Low, Mean, Groveling, debased, despicable, degraded, degenerate, wretched, menial, worthle , beggarly. (See list under low.) Abject, low, and mean may have e entially the same meaning, but low is more often used with respect to nature, condition, or rank; mean, to character or conduct; abject, to spirit. Groveling has the vividne of figurative use; it represents natural disposition toward what is low and base. Low is generally stronger than mean, conformably to the original senses of the two words. Never debase yourself by treacherous ways, Nor by such abject methods seek for praise. Dryden, Art of Poetry, iv. 976. An abject man he [Wolsey] was, in spite of his pride; for being overtaken riding out of that place towards Esher by one of the King's chamberlains, who brought him a kind me age and a ring, he alighted from his mule, took off his cap, and kneeled down in the dirt. ppr. abjudging. [ abjudicatet (ab-jöʻdi-kāt), v. t. [ abjudi- cat us , pp. of abjudicare , ab , away, + judicare , judge: judge: see judge .].] 1. 1. To take away by judicial sentence. Ash .-2. To judge to be illegal or erroneous; reject as wrong: as, to abjudicate a contract. abjudication (ab-jö-di-ka's hon), n. [ abjudi- cate .] Deprivation by judgment of a court; a divesting by judicial decree. Specifically, a legal decision by which the real estate of a debtor is ad- to his creditor. [ abjugatus ,