LekhoriLekhoriExisting in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.
These whelpes of the first lytter of gentilitie, these exhalations, drawen vp to the heauen of honour from the dunghill of abiect fortune, haue long been on horsebacke to come riding to your diuellship; but, I know not how, lyke Saint George, they are alwaies mounted but neuer moue.
A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class.
Nevertheleſſe he thatt comfortith the abiecte⸝ comforted vs at the cõmynge of Titus.
PIE word *h₂epó The adjective is derived from Late Middle English abiect, abject (adjective) [and other forms], from Middle French abject (modern French abject, abjet (obsolete)), and from its etymon...
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Complete; downright; utter.
abject failure abject nonsense abject terror
Lower than nearby areas; low-lying.
The Roots of this Plant [healing wolfsbane (Aconitum anthora)] increaſe abundantly, ſoon overrunning a large Piece of Ground, therefore ſhould be confin'd in ſome abject Part of the Garden, or planted under Trees, it being very hardy, and growing in almoſt every Soil or Situation.
To cast down (someone or something); to abase; to debase; to degrade; to lower; also, to forcibly impose obedience or servitude upon (someone); to subjugate.
What phrases of abjecting themselves, in respect of the prince, can exceed David's humble expressing of himself to Saul?
Of a fungus: to (forcibly) give off (spores or sporidia).