a. Obs. [f. L. ab away from + homin-e man + -AL, in imitation of the reputed etymology of ABOMINABLE (see prec.).] Unworthy of a man, inhuman, unmanly.
1550. Crowley, Epigr., 480. So boeth sortes commit Moste abhominal blasphemie.
1659. Fuller, Appeal of Inj. Innoc. (1840), 517. What could I have written more fully and freely in the cordial detestation of such abhominal libels?
