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Webster 1913 Edition

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(ăb)

Noun.

[Of Syriac origin.]

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August.

W. Smith.

, In English names, is an abbreviation of Abbey or Abbot.

, a prefix to words of Latin origin, and a Latin preposition, as in abscond, written in ancient Latin af. It denotes from, separating or departure.

, The Hebrew name of Father.

, The eleventh month of the Jewish civil year, and fifth of the ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of July, and a part of August.