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   abject , a. [L. abjectus, p. p. of abjicere to throw away; ab + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.]
   Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.]
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   From the safe shore their floating carcasses
   And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown
   Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood.
   Milton.
   
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   Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. “Base and abject flatterers.” Addison. “An abject liar.” Macaulay.
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   And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams.
   Shak.
   
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   Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; miserable; -- of persons.
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   Humiliating; degrading; wretched; -- of situations; as, abject poverty.
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   Syn. -- Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish; ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible; degraded.
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   Abject , v. t. [From Abject, a.] To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. [Obs.]
   Donne.
   
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   Abject , n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. [Obs.]
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   Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure?
   I. Taylor.
   
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