abhorrent

[ABHOR.] 1. Feeling an extreme aversion to, drawing back from with loathing or fear. "He would abhorrent turn." Thomson: Seasons. IMG:content-0021.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To stay or tarry for a short time, to wait. "And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night." Gen. xix. 2. 3. To continue, to remain, to rest. "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever." John xiv. 16. 4. To remain firm, to be incapable of being overthrown. "Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth."Ps. cxix. 90. Abide is followed by the prep. with of the person or persons, as in (3); and in , at , by , or on of the place, as in (1) and (2). At , as in Lev. viii. 35: "Abide at the door of the tabernacle." By, as in Job xxxix. 9: "Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?" (i.e., beside thy crib.) On, as in Hosea xi. 6: "And the sword shall abide on his cities." In the sense of wait it is followed by for , as"They shall abide for me many days." - Hosea iii. 8. To abide by a promise or resolution is to stand to it, to avoid departing from it. "Abides by this resolve."- Words worth: Happy Warrior. Similarly in Scotch Law : When a deed or document has been challenged as forged, the person founding on it is required to appear in court, and sign a declaration that he will abide by it, taking all responsibility of the consequences that may ensue. In case of a bill of exchange, the holder states that it came fairly into his hands, and that if it be a forgery he was in no shape acce ory to the crime. II. Transitive : 1. To await, to wait for. "Bonds and affliction abide me."- Acts xx. 28, (Or by supposing an ellipse of for , the verb may be considered intransitive.) 2. To endure, to bear, to sustain. "The nations shall not be able to abide his indign a tion."-Jeremiah x. 10. *3. To forbear. ( Lydgate .) IMG:content-0022.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0023.png:[blocks in formation] 1xvi. 24. shalt be an abhorring to all filesh.- Isa. ā'-bib, or ab's. Heb. אביב ) abi ) = a full green ear of grain, from the root אבב ) abab ( = to put forth fruit, especially ripe fruit; from אבוב )( = fruit ( eb in Heb. = greenne (.[ The first month of the Jewish civil year (Exod. xii. 2). The feasts of unleavened bread and of the pa over fell within it (Exod. xii., xiii., xxxiv. 18; Deut. xvi. 1). During the Captivity the name Nisan supplanted that of Abib. [NISAN.] The month fell about the time of our April, and its name suggested that at that period of the year in Palestine barley was in green ear.