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De - Pt| English Dictionary: abortion | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Abortion \A*bor"tion\ ([adot]*b[ocir]r"sh[ucr]n), n. [L. abortio, fr. aboriri. See {Abort}.] 1. The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage. Note: It is sometimes used for the offense of procuring a premature delivery, but strictly the early delivery is the abortion, [bd]causing or procuring abortion[b8] is the full name of the offense. --Abbott. | |
