Obs. [f. prec. + -ISM.] The practice of an andabate; struggling in the dark; contention or debate with no certain end in view.
c. 1630. Drumm. of Hawth., Irene, Wks. 1711, 169. To trouble an estate, be authors of divisions, insurrections, andabatism, uproars.
1635. Shelford, Disc., 121 (T.). To state the question that we might not fall to andabatism.
