abitacle

[Lat. habitaculum: habito to dwell.] A habitation, a dwelling. "In whom also be ye bilded togedre into the abitacle of God in the Hooli Goost."- Wycliffe : New Test.; Ephes . ii. 22. *a-bi'te, *a-by'te (pa. par. abiten ). [A.S.] To bite. IMG:content-0028.png:[blocks in formation] *a'-bīte, s. [Lat. habito .] A habitation. "To leave his abite , and gon his waie." ab-i-tion, s . [Lat. abitio = going away.] 1. Lit. The act of going away. Romaunt of the Rose, 4,914 2. Fig .: The act or state of dying. ( Cocker am .) ab-jěct, a . [Iu Fr. abject ; Ital. abietto , from Lat. abject us , pa. par. of abjicio = to throw away.] [ABJECT, v.t. ] 1. Lit. ( of material things): Cast away. "From the safe shore their floating carca es And broken chariot-wheels so thick bestrewn, Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood." Milton : Paradise Lost , i. 312, 2. Fig . (a) ( of persons ): Pertaining to a castaway; a social pariah, or one exce ively poor and despised. "See yonder poor o'erlabour'd wight, So abject , mean, and vile."- Burns . Hence (b) ( of persons): Cringing, servile, grovelling, morally debased to a contemptible extent, whether from being a castaway, or from other causes. " the most abject of flatterers."- Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xi. 3. Of things immaterial: (a) Servile, degraded, morally debased. or that abject peace of mind which springs from impudence and insensibility."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xv. (b) Mean, low, quite di evered from the idea of debasement by lo of place or otherwise. "But the most abject ideas must be entertained of their taste."-Gibbon: Decl. & Fall , ch. xlv.