ABJECTED

Verb

abjected

simple past tense and past participle of abject

Adjective

abjected (not comparable)

(obsolete) That has been cast off or rejected.

Source: Wiktionary


ABJECT

Ab"ject, a. Etym: [L. abjectus, p. p. of abjicere to throw away; ab + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.]

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.

Ab*ject", v. t. Etym: [From Abject, a.]

Definition: To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. [Obs.] Donne.

Ab"ject, n.

Definition: 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 Edition



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