The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium).

The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth.

The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.

See Apsis.

To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist.

A standing aloof.

In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively.

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.

The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.

Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

Serving to absolve; absolving.

That may be absolved.

Conferring absolution; absolutory.

To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment.

An absolver.

One who absolves.

Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.

Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous.

To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.

The state or quality of being absorbable.

Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

wholly absorbed as in thought

In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.

inducing or promoting absorption

Absorptiveness.

Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.

Anything which absorbs.

One who, or that which, absorbs.

Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit.

Absorption.

Absorbed.

The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.

Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe.

The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.

Absorptiveness.

To take one's self off; to decamp.

To hinder; to withhold.

One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors.

Abstaining from wine.

The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.

The act of abstaining; a holding aloof.

Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining.

To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge.

A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent.

To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.

Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.

Something cleansing.

The quality of being abstersive.

The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence.

Abstinence.

One who abstains.

With abstinence.

Wrested away.

That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.

Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.

In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.

The state of being abstracted; abstract character.

The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.

Pertaining to abstraction.

An idealist.

Obtained from plants by distillation.

Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.

In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself.

The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.

In an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered.

The quality of being abstract.

To unbind.

To thrust away.

Concealed or hidden out of the way.

In an abstruse manner.

The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.

The act of thrusting away.

Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.

To consume gradually; to waste away.

Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction.

An absurdity.

The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.

In an absurd manner.

Absurdity.

The capital city of United Arab Emirates. Population (2000) = 363,432.

a genus comprising the damsel fishes.

The capital city of Nigeria. Population (2000) = 339,000.

An abnormally intense inability to make decisions; severe irresolution.

showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions

The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.

An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.

Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with.

In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.

In a bursting condition.

That may be abused.

Abuse.

Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language.

Full of abuse; abusive.

One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb].

Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat.

Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.

In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.

The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.

To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

State of abutting.

The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland.

One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.

In a buzz; buzzing.

atone for, make amends for

To pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction.

A abyss.

An abyss; a gulf.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.

To a fathomless depth; profoundly.

A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.

Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.

same as Ethiopia.

A native of Abyssinia.

the chemical symbol for actinum, a radioactive element.

an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally. Alternative to direct curent, DC.

A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.