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Abandonnement
m.
an abandonning, quitting, forsaking, leaving off, giving over, laieng open for, prostituting vnto, others; also a proscribing or outlawing.
Abandonnément de raison.
a wilfull defection, revolting, or swarming, from reason.
Abandonnemént.
at randome, dissolutely, licenciously, profusely,with libertie.
Abandonner
to abandon, quit, forsake, forgoe, waiue or give ouer, shake or cast off, lay open, leaue at randome, prostitute vnto, make common for, others; also, to outlaw.
Abadonner la vie de tel au premier qui le pourra tuer.
to proscribe a man; (is ever to be vnderstood of a Soveraigne, or such a one as, next vnder God, hath absolute and vncontrowlable power ouer his life.
s'Abandonner à plaisirs.
sensually to yeeld, or become a slave, vnto pleasure; wholy to captiuat, or deuote, his thoughts to delights.
Fille qui donne s'abandonne
Pro. A maid that giveth yeeldeth.
Il commence bien à mourir qui abandonne son desir; Pro.
he truly begins to die that quits his chiefe desires.
Abandonneur
an abandonner, leaver, quitter, forsaker, forgoer, giver over, prostitutor of.
Abaque
m.
a Plinth, or flat square stone, on the Capitell of a pillar.
Abastardi
m.
ie. f. adulterated, sophisticated, bastardized, counterfeited; marred, corrupted, depraued; degenerat, changed out of it owne kind; made worse, growne worse and worse.
Abastardir.
to bastardise, adulterat, sophisticat, counterfeit; to change out of it owne kind into a worse; to depraue, corrupt, viciat, spoile, marre, make worse: also, to degenerat, wax naught, grow worse & worse: (In which sense it hath, most commonly, the Passive note, Se, before it.)
Abastardissement
m.
an adulterating, sophistication, counterfeiting; a corrupting, marring, deprauing; a making worse, or changing out of it owne kind into a worse; also a degenerating.
Abastardisseur
m.
an adulterator; sophisticater, counterfeiter; a corrupter, deprauer, spoiler of things; also, a bastard-maker.
Abatis; Abatre; & Abayeur.
Looke, Abbayement; Abbayer; and Abbayeur. Abbais. as Abbois. Abbaisse: m. ée: f. debased, dejected, humbled, prostrated, bent, or brought downe; made, growne low; decreased, fallen, stooping.
Abbaissement
m.
a debasing, abasing, dejecting, humbling, prostrating; bending downewards, bringing downe, mking low; also, a stooping; decreasing, falling, waxing low.
Abbaissement de courage.
faintheartednesse, or the growing fainthearted: a failing in courage: the falling of the crest; also, lowlinesse of mind.
Abbaissement de son estate.
an impairing, diminution, or abatement, of his means.
Abbaisser.
to debase, abase, abate, humble, depresse, deiect; bend downwards, bring downe, make low; also, to stoope; decease, fall, or wax low.
Abbaisser la Maiesté d'un Prince.
to disgrace, disparage, violate, infringe, or tread vnder foot, the Majestie of a Prince.
s'abbaisser à.
to humble or prostrat himselfe before; also, to yeeld or submit himselfe, vnto.
Abbaisseur
m.
an abaser, debaser, deiecter, depresser, humbler, bringer downe of.
Abbandon; & Abbandonné;
as Abandon; and Abandonné.
Abbandonnement; & Abbandonner;
Looke Abandonnement; & Abandonner.
Abbatement
m.
a felling, a beating, or breaking, a violent bearing, or bringing, downe; also, an abatement; also, the thing thats felled, beaten, or borne, down.
Abbateur.
a feller, ouerthrower, beater, breaker, or bearer, downe of.
Grand abbateur de bois.
a sore fellow, horrible swaggerer, terrible bugbeare; one that ouerthrowes all he meets with; (Ironically.)
Abbateure
f.
as Abbatement. Abbateures. the boughs, leaues, or sprigs, which a Deere breakes and beares downe with his head in rushing through a thicket.
Abbatial
m.ale: f.
Abbotlike. Abbay-like; of, or belonging to, an Abbot, or Abbey.
Abbatis
m.
an ouerthrow: or ouerthrowing; as Abbatemnent; Also, an vtter defeature, execution, or slaughter of men.
L'abbatis d'une forest.
wind-falls; or the wood, or trees, grubd vp[*comma?] felled, or fallen downe.
L'abbatis d'un maison;
the ruines of a house.
Abbatre. to fell; to beat or break downe; violently to beare, or bring drowne; to ruine, ouerthrow, cast to the ground; also to defeat vtterly, discomfit wholy.
Cele abbat l'yvresse.
that quels, allaies, abates drunkennesse; or makes a man sober againe.
Fort est qui abbat, & plus fort qui se releue;
Pro. Seeke, Releuer.
Abbatu
m. uë: f.
felled; beaten, or broken downe; violently borne, or brought down; quelled, ruined, ouerthrowne, cast to the ground.
Il a le coeur tout abbatu.
his mind is vtterly deiected, courage abated, heart gone; hee is wholy crestfallen; there is no further life, no mettall, spirit, left in him.
L'abbatu veut tousiours luicter;
Prov. sayd of an obstinat fellow, whom no foile can make leaue a Contention, or suit, begun.
Chasteau abbatu est à demy refaict;
Pro. A house puld downe is half built vp againe.
Abbay
m.
a barking, or baying of dogges; Looke Abbois.
Tenir en abbay.
to hold at bay; also, to delay, or driue off, with false hopes.
Abbayant. sub.
as Abbayeur: a barker, &c.
Abbayant. part.
barking, baying; railing.
Abbaye
f.
an Abbay, Monasterie, Religious house.
Abbayé
m. ée: f.
barked at; railed on.
Abbayement
m.
a barking or baying of dogs; also, a lowd, extreame, and passionat reuiling of, skoulding at, rayling on.
Abbayer,
to barke, or bay at; also to reuile extreamly, lowdly to raile on.
Il abbaye contre le Lune.
he barks at the Moone; sayd of one that obstinatly striues to falsifie, or disgrace the truth; wherein he spends his indeauors most ridiculously, vnprofitably, miserably.
Chien qui abbaye ne mord pas; Pro.
The barking dogge bites little: and, He that sayest most, commonly does least.
Qui sert commun nul ne le paye, & s'il defaut