1. To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance
toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Rom. xii. 9.
2. To fill with horror or disgust. [Obs.]
It doth abhor me now I speak the word.
Shak.
3. (Canon Law) To protest against; to reject solemnly. [Obs.]
I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul
Refuse you for my judge.
Shak.
Syn. — To hate; detest; loathe; abominate. See Hate.
Abhor
(Ab*hor"), v. i. To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; — with
from. [Obs.] "To abhor from those vices." Udall.
Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law.
Milton.
Abhorrence
(Ab*hor"rence) n. Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.
Abhorrency
(Ab*hor"ren*cy) n. Abhorrence. [Obs.] Locke.
Abhorrent
(Ab*hor"rent) a. [L. abhorens, -rentis, p. pr. of abhorrere.]
1. Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent
thoughts.
The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason.
Burke.
The arts of pleasure in despotic courts
I spurn abhorrent.
Clover.
2. Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; — followed by to. "Injudicious profanation, so abhorrent
to our stricter principles." Gibbon.
3. Detestable. "Pride, abhorrent as it is." I. Taylor.
Abhorrently
(Ab*hor"rent*ly), adv. With abhorrence.
Abhorrer
(Ab*hor"rer) n. One who abhors. Hume.
Abhorrible
(Ab*hor"ri*ble) a. Detestable. [R.]
Abhorring
(Ab*hor"ring) n.
1. Detestation. Milton.
2. Object of abhorrence. Isa. lxvi. 24.
Abib
(||A"bib) n. [Heb. abib, lit. an ear of corn. The month was so called from barley being at that
time in ear.] The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After
the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.
