Index of English words, starting with "ab"

(1) - Abstinence (n.) The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.
(2) - Abstinence (n.) 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.

(1) - Abstinency (n.) Abstinence.

(1) - Abstinent (n.) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.
(2) - Abstinent (n.) One who abstains.
(3) - Abstinent (a.) Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.

(1) - Abstinently (adv.) With abstinence.

(1) - Abstract (a.) To epitomize; to abridge.
(2) - Abstract (a.) Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.
(3) - Abstract (a.) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.
(4) - Abstract (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.
(5) - Abstract (a.) Abstracted; absent in mind.
(6) - Abstract (a.) To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
(7) - Abstract (a.) Withdraw; separate.
(8) - Abstract (a.) To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
(9) - Abstract (a.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
(10) - Abstract (a.) To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
(11) - Abstract (a.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.
(12) - Abstract (v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.
(13) - Abstract (a.) 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.
(14) - Abstract (a.) A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.
(15) - Abstract (a.) An abstract term.
(16) - Abstract (a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.