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Abort   Listen
verb
Abort  v. i.  
1.
To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.
2.
(Biol.) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.
3.
To stop, cease, or fail prior to normal completion.





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... became useless, they might also become injurious, on account of their delicacy of organisation and liability to accidents and disease; in which case natural selection would begin to act to reduce, and finally abort them; and this explains why, in some cases, the rudimentary eye remains, although completely covered by a protective outer skin. Whales, like moas and cassowaries, carry us back to a remote past, of whose conditions we know too little for safe speculation. We are ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... known on account of the beauty of its crimson flowers. The decoction of the leaves is a useful cleansing and deodorizing application for ulcers. The bruised leaves are used locally in painful affections of the joints and to abort syphilitic buboes and abscesses of all kinds. The juice of the tender leaves is used in Concan to destroy maggots in ulcers, and the powder has a similar use. A decoction is ...
— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera
... of the laws. Moreover, Stobaeus (Serm. 73) has preserved a passage from Musonius, in which that philosopher expressly states that the ancient law-givers inflicted punishments on females who caused themselves to abort. After the spread of Christianity among the Romans, however, foeticide became equally criminal with the murder of an adult, and the barbarian hordes which afterwards overran the empire also treated the offence as a crime punishable Fith death. This severe penalty remained in force in all ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


Words linked to "Abort" :   eject, expire, drop dead, termination, croak, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, exhaust, terminate, release, cash in one's chips, perish, conclusion, decease, expel, go, snuff it, conk, pop off, abortion, choke, miscarry, buy the farm, exit, pass away, die, end, pass, abortive, discharge


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