10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABACTOR»
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Elements of Greek Prosody
9: abactor : fur, minator. Dubitat enim de Loewii explicatione vocis minator et
hanc glossam latinograecam fuisse sumit: abactor : q>u>p, direXdrnc diteXdrric
glossatorem errore pro duei\r]Tric accepisse. Quam coniectu- ram probarem, ...
Franz Ernst Heinrich Spitzner, 1831
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A Changing World of Words: Studies in English Historical ...
An example of this can be seen in the treatment of the word abactionl abactor.
Johnson defines abactor as: "Those [sic] who drive away or steal cattle in herds,
or great numbers at once, in distinction from those that steal only a sheep or two"
...
Javier E. Díaz Vera, 2002
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Wharton's concise dictionary
See ABACTOR. Abigeus [fr. abigo, Lat], a stealer of cattle, the same as abactor,
Civil Law. See ABACTOR. Ability. See s. 6 of the Statute of Frauds Amendment
Act, 1828, tit. REPRESENTATION. Means the capacity to perform an act or
service ...
Ar Lakshmanan, John Jane Smith Wharton, 2009
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Keep Up If You Can: Confessions of a High School Teacher
On page one, I found the word “abactor” (which I had never seen before). It
means a cattle thief! But not just any cattle thief. An abactor is very serious about
rustling. “Abaction” is “the stealing of a number of cattle at one time.” It comes
from ...
5
The horseflies of the subfamily Tabaninae of the Nearctic region
Antenna, front view of head, and palpus of (A) Tabanus zythicolor and (B) T.
abactor. ing eyes and slightly higher than wide ; median callus dark brown to
black, joined to basal callus by a narrow line or completely separated; subcallus
...
6
Miscellaneous Publication
to the amount swallowed by the insect, as much as 100 cc. of blood may ooze
from the puncture after the fly has left. Other important species include: the striped
horse fly, T. lineola Fab., T. costalis Wied., T. abactor Philip, T. quinquevittatus ...
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American Aberdeen-Angus Herd Book
Bonny P. 27652 Elvin J. 84938 Emma E. T. 77337 Elvin J. 84938 Lucy J. T.
77338 Elyin J. 84938 ^acie E. 34001 Maple Avenue Abactor 96871 Maple
Avenue Rosa 5th 21376 Maple Avenue Abactor 96871 Maple Avenue Peerless
2d 86021 .
I thought, if she went no more, the Abactor or Abactor's wife (ride Ainsworth)
would suppose she had heard something ; and I have delicacy for a sheep-
stealer. The overseers actually overhauled a mutton- pie at the baker's (his first,
last, and ...
'executioners . . . robbers, bandits, cattle-rustlers . . .' 1 think what Morin wrote was
abactor es 'cattle-rustlers'. My second choice would be luctatores 'wrestlers',
which appears a few lines up in the same text. 24 The Latin wardfucatrices is not
in ...
Jean Baptiste Morin, 1994
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The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb
I thought, if she went no more, the Abactor or Abactor's wife (vide Ainsworth)
would suppose she had heard something ; and I have delicacy for a sheep-
stealer. The overseers actually overhauled a mutton pie at the baker's, (his first,
last ...
Charles Lamb, Percy Fitzgerald, 2013
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The wordy confessions of a collector of dictionaries
An abactor is a cattle thief. I can't remember that word being used on any episode of The Lone Ranger I ever saw. “Kimosabe, the abactors ... «Herald Sun, Jul 14»
Upper St. Clair middle-schooler captures regional spelling bee
Three rounds later, Helena misspelled "prolusory." Suneel correctly spelled "abactor" and then one more word, "unadulterated," to win the bee. «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Mar 14»
Mementos of Misery at the Ends of the World
... 1830s handwritten list of words “not sufficiently familiarized to his mind” (starting with “abactor” and “abarticulation”) to $35,000 for Papias the ... «New York Times, Nov 12»
