a. Obs. OE. ǽbere, ‘Clear and evident by proof, manifest, notorious,’ Bosworth; as Se ǽbera þeóf the notorious thief, Laws of Edgar, ii. 7; ǽbere morð manifest murder. Hence
Abere-murder. Obs. ‘Plain or downright murder, as distinguished from manslaughter and chancemedley.’ Phillips, 1706. [Only a dictionary transformation of Law-Latin aberemurdrum, for OE. ǽbere morð.]
