ABET
\ɐbˈɛt], \ɐbˈɛt], \ɐ_b_ˈɛ_t]\
Definitions of ABET
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Act of abetting; aid.
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To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; - used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
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To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; - in a good sense.
By Oddity Software
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Act of abetting; aid.
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To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; - used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
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To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; - in a good sense.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To incite by encouragement or aid (used chiefly in a bad sense):-pr.p. abetting; pa.p. abetted.
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ABETTOR.
By Daniel Lyons
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ABETTOR.
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To encourage (wrong-doing or a wrong-doer), as by approval or aid; incite; instigate; as, to abet a person in a crime.
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Abetter.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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