abator
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
(GenAm) IPA: /əˈbeɪt.ə/, /əˈbeɪt.ɚ/
Etymology 1 [edit]
- abate (“to enter without right after the owner dies and before the heir takes over”) + -or[1]
- Abate has two different etymologies.
Noun [edit]
abator (plural abators)
- (law) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. [Mid 16th century.] [2]
Etymology 2 [edit]
Noun [edit]
abator (plural abators)
Related terms [edit]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Anagrams [edit]
References [edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1976 [1909], Gove, Philip Babcock editor, Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged, Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Co., ISBN 0-87779-101-5:
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 2:
