Meaning of abstort | Babel Free

Definitions

To wrest by force or persuasion.

rare, transitive

Examples

“he has violently and wrongfully abstorted it from them.”

“It is needless to remark⟳ on the modesty of this epithet when assumed by men;—and by such men! by the lord Johns, and the lord Harrys, who even now abstort from us more homage than we yield⟳ to Heaven!”

“How stillsome and flooth could suburbity be Were the gramsters abstorted by felo-de-se- For I daminate grams, and they scruciate me!”

“[…] abstorting surplus staff wherever found necessary.”

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