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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