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Webster 1828 Edition


A.b.c.

AB'BACY

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Noun.
[from abba, Low Lat, abbatia.] The dignity, rights and privileges of an abbot. It comprehends the government and revenues.

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A.B.C.

A.B.C.

See also: abc, ABC, and Abc

Old Spanish

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Noun

A.B.C. m (usually uncountable)

  1. alphabet, ABCs
    • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 111r.
      […] ¬ ordeno las por las letras del. A.B.C. arauigas. ſegund eſtan aqui ordenadas por las latinas.
      […] and he ordered them according to the letters of the Arabian alphabet, as they are ordered here after the Latin ones.

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