abhor

t. [Fr. abhorrer; Sp. aborecer; to = Ital. aborrire ; all from Lat. abhorreo shrink back from: ab from, and horreo = (1) to stand erect, bristle up; (2) tremble as with cold; (3) shudder at, as in fear.] 1. So to hate as to shrink back in aversion from; to loathe. "I hate and abhor lying; but thy law do I love.". Ps. cxix. 163. "I abhor death." Byron: Heaven and Earth, i. 3. 12. To despise, neglect. "He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted."- Ps . xxii. 24. 13. To cast off, to reject. "But thou hast cast off and abhorred.... thy anointed."- Ps . lxxxix. 38. Formerly the pa ive was sometimes followed by of , applied to the person entertaining the hatred. Now by is used: "And all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father."-2 Sam . xvi. 21. It is also found in a half transitive sense. ( Poet .) "You would abhor to do me wrong." Cowper . *4. To protest against. "I utterly abhor , yea, from my soul Refuse you as my judge." Shakesp.: Henry VIII., ii. 4. *5. To fill with horror. ( Scotch .) "It wald abhor thee till heir red The saikles blude that he did schede."-Lindsay. ǎb-hor'-rěd, pa . par . & a. [ABHOR.] "The weedy, foul, abhorred ground." ab-hor'-rěnçe, † ab-hör-ren-çỹ, s. [ABHOR.] Hatred, producing a shrinking back from, aversion to. Thomson: Castle of Indolence, 11. 67. "And what theologian would a ert that, in such cases, we ought, from abhorrence of the evil, to reject the good?"-Macaulay: Hist. of Eng., chap. xiv. "A show of wonder and abhorrency in the parents." -Locke on Education , § 110.