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• Abitur

  n. German final secondary school exam, 1863, short for abiturium, from Modern Latin abitorire “to wish to leave,” desiderative of Latin abire (neuter plural abitum) “to go away,” from ab- “away” (see ab-) + ire “to go” (see ion). Historical Examples Do they not offer homage willingly to abitur of the Mountains? Sarchedon G. J. […]

• Abiu

  Douay Bible. . Historical Examples Nadab and Abiu for offering strange fire, are burnt by fire. The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version Various

• Abject

  utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty. contemptible; despicable; base-spirited: an abject coward. shamelessly servile; slavish. Obsolete. cast aside. Contemporary Examples It has dragged Pakistan into disastrous confrontations short of war, which ended in abject retreat before India’s superior power. David’s Book Club: Pakistan, Between Mosque and Military David Frum April 22, 2012 No, […]

• Abjection

  the condition of being servile, wretched, or contemptible. the act of humiliating. Mycology. the release of spores by a fungus. Historical Examples There is in the young girl all the abjection of the cad and of the school-boy. Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry Charles Baudelaire He wanted in that abjection to triumph over the entire […]

• Abjective

  tending to degrade, humiliate, or demoralize: the abjective influences of his early life.

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