abatement
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromMiddle Englishabatement,fromAnglo-Normanabatre(“to abate”)(fromOld Frenchabatre),[1]+-ment;[2]equivalent toabate+-ment.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abatement(countableanduncountable,pluralabatements)
- The act ofabating,or the state of beingabated;alessening,diminution,or reduction; amoderation;removal or putting an end to; the suppression.[First attested from 1340 to 1470.][3][1]
- Theabatementof a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
- (accounting)The deduction of minor revenues incidental to an operation in calculating the cost of the operation.
- (law)The action of a person that abates, or without proper authority enters a residence after the death of the owner and before the heir takes possession.[2]
- (law)The reduction of the proceeds of a will, when the debts have not yet been satisfied; the reduction of taxes due.[4][First attested around 1150 to 1350.][3]
- An amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction;deduction;decrease;arebateordiscountallowed; in particular from a tax.[Late 15thcentury.][3]
- (heraldry)A mark ofdishonoron anescutcheon;anyfigureadded to thecoat of armstending to lower thedignityorstationof thebearer.[2][Early 17thcentury.][3]
- (Scotland)Waste ofstuffin preparing tosize.[5]
- A beating down, a putting down.
- A quashing, a judicial defeat, the rendering abortive by law.
- Forcible entry of a stranger into an inheritance when the person seised of it dies, and before the heir ordeviseecan take possession;ouster.
- rebatement,real or imaginary marks ofdisgraceaffixed to anescutcheon.
Synonyms
[edit]- (lessening):assuagement,declension,decline,decrease,deduction,depreciation,diminution,discount,drawback,ebb,evanishment,fading,lessening,lowering,mitigation,moderation,reduction,remission,settling,sinking,subsidence,waning.See alsoThesaurus:diminution
- (in tax):allowance,rebate,remission
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of“lessening”):accession,accretion,aggrandizement,augmentation,development,dilation,enlargement,growth,increase,increment,
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the act of abating or the state of being abated
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(accounting) The deduction of minor revenues incidental to an operation
(law) The action of a person that abates
(law) The reduction of the proceeds of a will
An amount abated
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(heraldry) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon
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(Scotland) Waste of stuff in preparing to size
References
[edit]- ↑1.01.1Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors),Chambers Dictionary of Etymology(Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998],→ISBN), page 2
- ↑2.02.12.2Philip Babcock Gove (editor),Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged(G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909],→ISBN)
- ↑3.03.13.23.3Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abatement”, inThe Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles,5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page 2.
- ^Laurence Urdang (editor),The Random House College Dictionary(Random House, 1984 [1975],→ISBN), page 1
- ^“abatement,n.”in theDictionary of the Scots Language,Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Further reading
[edit]Abatementin theEncyclopædia Britannica(11th edition, 1911)
- The Manual of Heraldry,Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at[1]
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