it a coalition of a ban donner, to give up to a proſcription; in which ſenſe we, at this day, mention the ban of the empire. Ban, in our own old dialect, ſignifies a curſe; and to abandon, if conſidered as compounded between French and Saxon, is exactly equivalent to diris devovere.]
- To give up, reſign, or quit; often followed by the particle to.
- To deſert.
There i? aft abafement becaufe of glory; and there is that lifteth up his head from a low eftate. Ecclefiajliius, xx. 11. To Aba'sh. v.a. [See BASHFUL.] To put into confufion; to make afhamed. It generally implies a fudden imprefiion of fiiame. They heard, and were ahafh'd, and up they fprung Upon the wing. Milton's Paradife Lojl, b. i. /. 33 r. This heard, th' imperious queen fat mute with fear; Nor further durft incenfe the gloomy thunderer. Silence was in the court at this rebuke: Nor could the gods, abajh'd, Auftain their fovereign's look. Dryden's Fables. The pafiive admits the particle at, fometimes of before the caufal noun. In no wife fpeak againft the truth, but be alajhed of the error of thy ignorance. Eccleftajlicus, iv. 25. I faid unto her, from whence is this kid? is it not Aden f Render it to the owners, for it is not lawful to eat any thing that is ftolen. But file replied upon me, it was given for a gift, more than the wages: however, I did not believe her, but bad her render it to the owners; and I was abajhed at her.
The princes ufing the paflions of fearing evil, and defiring to efcape, only to ferve the rule of virtue, not to abandon one's lelf, leapt to a rib of the fhip. Sidney, b. ii. Then being alone. Left and abandon'd of his velvet friends, 'Tis right, quoth he; thus mifery doth part The flux of company. Shake/p. As you like it. What fate a wretched fugitive attends. Scorn d by my foes, abandon'd by my friends. Dryd. Ain. 2. 3* * 0 generally with a tendency to an ill fenfe. When he in prefence came, to Guyon firft He boldly fpake. Sir knight, if knight thou be, Abandon this foreftalled place at erft, I or fear of further harm, I counfel thee. Spenfer's Fairy §)ueen, b. ii. cant. 4. Jlanz. 39. But to the parting goddefs thus fhe pray'd; Propitious ftill be prefent to my aid, Nor quite abandon your once favour'd maid. Dryd. Fab. To abandon over. v. a. [a form of writing not ufual, per¬ haps not exa<£l.] To give up to, to refign. Look on me as a man abandon d o'er To an eternal lethargy of love; To pull, and pinch, and wound me, cannot cure. And but difturb the quiet of my death. Dryd. Sp. Friar. Abandoned, particip. adj. li Given up.
■ . Tib. ii. 13, 14,. The little Cupids hov'ring round, (As pidlures prove) with garlands crown'd, Abajh'd at what they faw and heard, Flew off, nor ever more appear'd. Swift's Mifcellamesr To ABA'TE. v. a. [from the French abbatre, to beat down.] 1. To leffen, to diminifh. Who can tell whether the divine wifdom, to abate the glorv of thofe kings, did not referve this work to be done by a queen, that it might appear to be his own immediate work? • • Sir John Davies on Ireland. it you did know to whom I gave the ring. And how unwillingly I left the ring. You would abate the ftrength of your difpleafure. Shakefp. Merchant of Venice. Here we fee the hopes of great benefit and light from expolitors and commentators are in a great part abated; and thofe who have moll need of your help, can receive but little from them, and can have very little afliirance of reaching the Apoftle's fenfe, by what they find in them.
If fhe be fo abandon'd to her forrow, As it is fpoke, fhe never will admit me. Shakefp. Twelfth Night. Wno is he fo abandoned to fottifh credulity, as to think, upon that principle, that a clod of earth in a fack, may ever, by eternal fhaking, receive the fabric of man's body?
T, . . . , Locke's EJfay on St. Paid's Epijlles. 2. 1 o deject, or deprefs the mind. This iron world (the fame he weeping fays) Brings down the ftouteft hearts to loweft ftate: For mifery doth braveft minds abate. Spenf Halberd's Talc, -Have they power ftill To banifh your defenders, till at length Your ignorance deliver you, As moft abated captives to fome nation
Bentleys Sermons. Mult he, whofe altars on the Phrygian fhore, "With frequent rites, and pure, avow'd thy pow'r. Be doom d the worft of human ills to prove, Unblefs'd, abandon d to the wrath of Jove? Pope's Odyjfey,, b. i. 1. 80. 2. Jrorfaken, deferted. 3. Corrupted in the higheft degree. In this fenfe, it is a con¬ traction of a longer form, abanidoned ("given up] to wickednefs. Abandoning. [A verbal noun from abandon.] Defertion, forfaking. He hoped his paft meritorious actions might outweigh his prefent, abandoning the thought of future adtion. Clarend. b. viii. Abandonment, n.f. [abandonnement, Fr.j ii. The a£t of abandoning. 2i The Bate of being abandoned. DiR. Abanni'tion. n.f. [Lat. abannitio.] A banifhment for one or two years, among the ancients, for manflaughter. DiR. A'barcy. n.f. Infatiablenefs. DiR. To Aba're. v. a. [abajman, Sax.] To make bare, uncoveror difclofe. Abarticula tIon. n. f. [from ah, from, and articulusye. joint, Lat.] A good and apt conftru&ion of the bones, by which they move ftrongly and eafily; or that fpecies of articulation that has manifeft motion. DiR To Abase, v.a. [Fr. abaijfer, from the Lat. bafts, or bajfus, a barbarous word, fignifying low, bafe.J To caft down, to deprefs, to bring low, almoft always in a figurative and perfonal fenfe. Happy fhepherd, with thanks to the gods, Bill think to be thankful, that to thy advancement their wifdoms have thee aba fed. . Sidney, b. i. With unrefifted might the monarch reigns; He levels mountains, and he raifes plains; And, not regarding difference of degree, Abas'd your daughter, and exalted me. Dryd. Fables. Behold every one that is proud, and abafe him. Job,x. 11. If the mind be curbed and humbled too much in children • if their fpirits bc abafed and broken much by too ftridtan hand over them; they lofe all their vigour and induftry, and are in a worfe ftate than the former. Locke on Education, § 46. Aba'sed. adj. [with heralds] is a term ufed of the wings of eagles, when the top looks downwards towards the point of the Afield; or when the wings are fiiut; the natural way of hearing them being fpread with the top pointing to the chief of the angle. £*%. Chambers. Aba semen r. n.f. The Aate of being brought low; the act of bringing low; depreflion.
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