ppl. a. [f. ABHOR v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Regarded with horror or disgust, detested.

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1605.  Shaks., Lear, I. ii. 81. Abhorred Villaine, vnnaturall, detested, bruitish Villaine.

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1723.  De Foe, Col. Jack (1840), 177. The abhorred crimes he had committed.

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1832.  Gen. P. Thompson, Exercises (1842), II. 320. The abhorred thing which weighed on our fathers like an incubus.

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1846.  Keble, Lyra Innoc. (1873), 141. Thy right arm shall wield his sword, Wield, and take his head abhorred.

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  † 2.  Filled with horror, horrified. Obs.

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1602.  Shaks., Haml., V. i. 206. How abhorred my Imagination is; my gorge rises at it.

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