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Abacination
- - The act of abacinating.
Abecedarian
- adjective - a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge
- a novice learning the rudiments of some subject
- alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)
Abel Tasman
- noun - Dutch navigator who was the first European to discover Tasmania and New Zealand (1603-1659)
Ablactation
- noun - the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal
- the cessation of lactation
Able Seaman
- noun - a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills
- a seaman in the merchant navy; trained in special skills
Abocclusion
- noun - the condition in which the upper teeth do not touch the lower teeth when biting
Abomination
- noun - a person who is loathsome or disgusting
- an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; "his treatment of the children is an abomination"
- hate coupled with disgust
Absentation
- - The act of absenting one's self.
Abstraction
- noun - a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person"
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- an abstract painting
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances