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 being often condemned to the mines, banihment, and ometimes capitally.  ABIGEATUS, or, among phyicians, ignifies a micarriage effected by art.  ABIGIES, a term in the Roman law, applied to one who had been guilty of the crime ; which ee.  ABILITY, a term in law, denoting a power of doing certain actions in the acquiition or tranferring of property.  ABINGDON, a town of Berkhire, England, eated on the Thames, about 55 miles W. of London, and gives title of Earl to the noble family of Bertie.  AB-INTESTATE, in the civil law, is applied to a person who inherits the right of one who died intestate, or without making a will. See.  ABISHERING, a term found in old law books, denoting a liberty or freedom from all amerciaments, and a right to exact forfeitures of others.  ABIT, or, obolete terms for cerue or white lead. See and. <section end="Abit" /> <section begin="Abjuration" />ABJURATION, in our ancient cutoms, implied an oath, taken by a peron guilty of felony, and who had fled to a place of anctuary, whereby he olemnly engaged to leave the kingdom for ever.

, is now used to ignify the renouncing, diclaiming, and denying, upon oath, the Pretender to have any kind of right to the crown of thee kingdoms.

of heresy, the solemn recantation of any doctrine as fale and wicked. <section end="Abjuration" /> <section begin="Ablac" />ABLAC, a mall river in Swabia, which falls into the Danube not far from Furtenburg. <section end="Ablac" /> <section begin="Ablactation" />ABLACTATION, the weaning of a child from the breat. See.

, in gardening, ignifies grafting by approach. See and. <section end="Ablactation" /> <section begin="Ablacqueation" />ABLACQUEATION, an old term in gardening, ignifies the operations of removing the earth and baring the roots of trees in winter, to expoe them more freely to the air, rain, nows, &c. <section end="Ablacqueation" /> <section begin="Ablative" />ABLATIVE, is the 6th cae in Latin grammar, and peculiar to that language. It is oppoed to the dative, which exprees the action of giving, and the ablative that of taking away. <section end="Ablative" /> <section begin="Ablay" />ABLAY, or, a country of Great Tartary, whoe inhabitants, called Bochars, are vaals of the Ruians. It lies to the east of the Irtis, and extends 500 leagues along the outhern frontiers of Siberia. <section end="Ablay" /> <section begin="Ablecti" />ABLECTI, in Roman antiquity, a elect body of soldiers choen from among thoe called, which ee. <section end="Ablecti" /> <section begin="Ablegmina" />ABLEGMINA, among the ancient Romans, ignified thoe parts in the intrails of victims which were prinkled with flour, and burnt upon the altar, in acrificing to the gods. <section end="Ablegmina" /> <section begin="Ablet" />ABLET, or, an obolete name of the fih called Cyprinus. See. <section end="Ablet" /> <section begin="Abluents" />ABLUENTS, in medicine, are the ame with diluters. <section end="Abluents" /> <section begin="Ablution" />ABLUTION, a ceremony ued by the ancient Romans before they began the acrifice, which conited in wahing the body. They very probably learned this ceremoy from the Jews, as have alo the Mahometans, who till practie it with the utmot trictnes.

, among chemits, the weetening any matter impregnated with alts, by repeatedly wahing it with pure water. See.

, with phyicians, is either the wahing of any external part by bathing, or of the tomach and intetines by diluting liquors. <section end="Ablution" /> <section begin="Abo" />ABO, a city of Sweden, capital of Finland, eated at the mouth of the river Aurojocks on the gulph of Bothnia, 24. 0. N. E. of Stockholm, in lat. 60. 30. N. and long. 21. 20. E. <section end="Abo" /> <section begin="Aboard" />ABOARD, ignifies any part of the deck or inide of a hip; hence any peron who goes on the deck, or into the apartments of a hip, is aid to go aboard. <section end="Aboard" /> <section begin="Abolition" />ABOLITION, implies the act of annulling, detroying, making void, or reducing to nothing. In law, it ignifies the repealing of any law or tatute. <section end="Abolition" /> <section begin="Abolla" />ABOLLA, the name of a military garment worn by the Greeks and Romans. <section end="Abolla" /> <section begin="Abomasus" />ABOMASUS,, or , names of the fourth tomach of ruminating animals, The firt tomach is called venter, the econd reticulum, the third omaus, and the fourth abomais. The third tomach, omais, is endued with the ingular quality of curdling milk. But the truth is, the tomachs of almot all animals, whether they ruminate or not, will produce the ame effect, though not perhaps in an equal degree, as the tomachs of calves or lambs. See,. <section end="Abomasus" /> <section begin="Abomination" />ABOMINATION, a term ued in cripture to expres idols, idolatry, &c. <section end="Abomination" /> <section begin="Aborigines" />ABORIGINES, an epithet applied to the original or firt inhabitents of any country, but particularly ued to ignify the ancient inhabitants of Latium, or country now called Campagna di Roma, when Æneas with his Trojans came into Italy. <section end="Aborigines" /> <section begin="Abortion" />ABORTION, in midwifery, the birth of a fœtus before it has acquired a ufficient degree of perfection to enable it to perform repiration and other vital functions. See, title, Of abortions.

, among gardeners, ignifies uch fruits as, being produced too eay, never arrive at maturity. <section end="Abortion" /> <section begin="Abortive" />ABORTIVE, in a general ene, implied any thing which comes before its proper time, or micarries in the execution. <section end="Abortive" /> <section begin="Aboy" />ABOY, a mall town in Ireland, in the province of Leinter. <section end="Aboy" /> <section begin="Abra" />ABRA, a ilver coin in Poland, in value nearly equivalent to an Englih hilling. <section end="Abra" /> <section begin="Abracadabra" />ABRACADABRA, a magical word of pell, which being written as many times as the word contains letters, and omitting the lat letter of the former every time, was, in the ages of ignorance and upertition, worn about the neck, as an antidote againt agues and everal other dieaes. <section end="Abracadabra" /> <section begin="Abraham's Balm" />ABRAHAM's balm, in botany, See. <section end="Abraham's Balm" /> <section begin="Abrahamites" />ABRAHAMITES, an order of monks exterminated for idolatry by Theophilus in the ninth century. Alo the name of another ect of heretics who had adopted the errors of Paulus. See. <section end="Abrahamites" /> <section begin="Abramis" />ABRAMIS, an obolete name for the fih cyprinus, See. <section end="Abramis" /> Rh