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Abacinate
- verb - blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes; "The prisoners were abacinated by their captors"
Abelonian
- - One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.
Abeyances
- noun - temporary cessation or suspension
Abidances
- noun - acting according to certain accepted standards; "their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices"
- the act of abiding (enduring without yielding)
- the act of dwelling in a place
Abominate
- verb - find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"
Absconded
- verb - run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; "The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"
Absconder
- noun - a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution
Abstinent
- adjective - a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages
- self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink; "not totally abstinent but abstemious"
Accounted
- verb - be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something; "Passing grades account for half of the grades given in this exam"
- furnish a justifying analysis or explanation; "I can't account for the missing money"
- keep an account of
- to give an account or representation of in words; "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental"