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/æbdˈəktər/ /əbdˈəktər/ Listen

noun

Abductor n.

One who abducts.

(Anat.) A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Abductor" Quotes from Famous Books

... master Cyaxares, but his Rival (the word has immense importance in these romances, and is always honoured with a capital there), and learns that the escaping galley carried with it his beloved Mandane, daughter of Cyaxares, of whom he is in quest, and who has been abducted from her abductor and lover by another, ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury

... diversity of opinion, in Fiddletown. "The Dutch Flat Intelligencer" openly alluded to the "forcible abduction" of the child with the same freedom, and it is to be feared the same prejudice, with which it had criticised the abductor's poetry. All of Mrs. Tretherick's own sex, and perhaps a few of the opposite sex, whose distinctive quality was not, however, very strongly indicated, fully coincided in the views of "The Intelligencer." The majority, however, evaded the moral issue: that Mrs. Tretherick had shaken ...

— Tales of the Argonauts • Bret Harte

... were of no avail to detain the horrid abductor. Nor yet the boy's strength, exerted to its utmost. His strength alone; for Murtagh was not yet up. Henry seized the gorilla's leg, and clung to it as long as ever he could. He was dragged several feet up the trunk; but a kick from the gorilla shook him off, and he fell, stunned and almost ...

— The Castaways • Captain Mayne Reid

... another week it would drop beneath the plant it grew on and, not being cared for by a gardener, would be smothered or hoed up. In a nice little seed-bed all to itself it can unfold all manner of pleasure for its abductor. ...

— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various

... him who brings me the abductor, or the name of any one engaged in the crime, with proof ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace

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