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for Mags., p. 119. abannition forsaken; left to destruction: as, an abandoned ship. If we had no hopes of a better state after this, we Christians should be the most abandoned and wretched creatures. Atterbury , On 1 Cor. xv. 19. 2. Given up, as to vice, especially to the indulgence of vicious appetites or pa ions; shamele ly and reckle ly wicked; profligate. Where our abandoned youth she sees, Shipwrecked in luxury and lost in ease. Prior , Ode. =Syn. 1. Forsaken, deserted, given up, relinquished, discarded, rejected, destitute, forlorn.2. Profligate , Abandoned, Reprobate , depraved, corrupt, vicious, wicked, unprincipled, hardened, dead to honor, incorrigiblė, irreclaimable. Profligate, abandoned, reprobate expre extreme wickedne that has cast off moral restraint. Profligate is applied to one who throws away means and character in the pursuit of vice, and especially denotes depravity exhibited outwardly and conspicuously in conduct; hence it may be used to characterize political conduct: as, a profligate administration. Abandoned is applied to one who has given himself wholly up to the gratification of vicious propensities; it is stronger than profligate and weaker than reprobate . Reprobate is applied to one who has become insensible to reproof and is past hope; from its use in the Bible it has become the theo logical term for hopele alienation from virtue or piety. (For comparison with depraved , etc., see criminal , a.) IMG:content-0039.png:[graphic] Next age will see