Accompire if it may not be better done from the Decompoſit Lat. Aboutir which ſignifies, to oppoſe, or confront. Af-ſtain which ſignifie to ſtand off from: If it may not more commodi ouſly be drawn from the Lat. Abroad, from the ſuperfluous Par ticle a, and bload: which ſee. Abutan, which is compounded of ab, from, and utan, without, abroad, the laſt, or extremi ty from whence comes the Belg. Boven, and the ſuper fluous, particle a, and both again from the AS.
The word metaphorically ſig nifies, to endure or ſuffer any hardſhip. Badare, to ſubſiſt, ſtay, or tarry which may all of them, perhaps, come from the AS. Ad to, and bet which, in compoſition, ſigni fies, to ſtand by one, or bet on ones ſide and therefore ſhould ſeem to be right ſpell'd Abbet If it may not be de duced from a priv. Abet, which, I think, may not incommodiouſly come from the Lat. Abba, Father which an Abbot properly is: But, to be ſure, we have it, by a ſmall corruption, from the Engliſh-Saxon Abbod, which ſignifies the ſame. Abbot, Anglo-ſaxonick Abbud, abbod, and abbad, Belg. Let the Curious judge, which is beſt to follow. Honywood de rives it from the Privative A, and the Belgick Baete which ſignifies Profit, or Intereſt becauſe by diminiſhing a thing, it becomes leſs profitable. Abattere, or the Spaniſh Abatir which in one ſence, ſignifie, to beat down in another, to ſub ſtract, as in Arithmetick. t be not likelier from the Spaniſh Abaxar, to keep under be cauſe Inferiours are uſually abaſh'd, when ſuddainly ac coſted by Superiors.Esbahir, to affrighten which comes from the Lat. Aban donare if it may not better, and likelier be drawn from the Anglo-ſaxonick Abannan, that is, publickly to diſ-inhe rit: Or, which is moſt likely, from our own word Bann, or the Belgick Bannen, that is, to lie under a Curſe, the A Otioſa, or ſuperfluous, being added. Abandon, from the French A bandonner, or the Ital. Abaiſance which we falſly write Obeiſance, as if it came from the French Obeiſance, when really it comes from Abbaiſſer, which ſignifies, to depreſs, or make an humble inclination of the body as we do, when we do Abaiſance. A A, is a Vowel that is often ſuperfluous in the be ginning of words as in Ariſe, abide, abate, &c.
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