abject

Definition of abject

Ab`ject´ Pronunciation: ăb`jĕkt´

a.	1.	Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. - Milton.
	2.	Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. - Shak.
	3.	Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; miserable; - of persons.
	4.	Humiliating; degrading; wretched; - of situations; as, abject poverty.
v. t.	1.	To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
n.	1.	A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure? - I. Taylor.

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