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Pronunciation : Ab"ject
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [L. abjectus, p. p. of abjicere to throw away; ab + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.]
Definition : 1. Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

Syn. -- Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish; ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible; degraded.

Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Ab*ject"
Part of Speech : v. t.
Etymology : [From Abject, a.]
Definition : Defn: To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. [Obs.] Donne.

Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Ab"ject
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. [Obs.] Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure I. Taylor.

Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

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