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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