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abicere

abicere [CL] 1 to throw away, reject. b (fig.) to reject, renounce. 1246 abjecerunt saccum et fugerunt SelPlForest 84; scofe sunt grossa corpora, illa sc. que abjiciuntur ab hiis que colantur SB 38.  b fidem quam olim ‥ abjecerant ‥ receperunt Bede HE III 22; omnes ‥ regnum ipsius abjicere [v. l. abjecere] ‥ moliti sunt Osb. V. Dunst. 28; 1228 devotione populi Christiani abjecta (Lit. Papae) M. Par. Maj. III 149. 2 (p. ppl.) abject, mean, squalid. [Angli] parvis et abjectis domibus totos absumebant sumptus W. Malm. GR III 245; s1225 [Falcasius] vilis fuit, undique et abjectus, nec dignus ira Cesaris M. Par. Min. II 272; scribe crucem, que transgressoribus / pena fuit abjectioribus J. Howd. Ph. 764; vestimenta lanea et linea ‥ que nec nitida nimium nec abjecta plurimum erunt Obs. Barnwell 196.

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