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Thread #59418   Message #1199370
Posted By: Amos
03-Jun-04 - 12:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
By the way, I inadvertantly misused the word abjure in a recent post on this thread. My profuse and profound apologies. I have been overwrought and underpaid.

formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn


Send a creature or effect away with an Abjuration spell or effect.
www.wizards.com/dnd/DND_PH_Glossary_Print.asp


To renounce, or abandon, by or upon oath. (Page 19) TOP
www.rightwaylaw.org/cnhelglo.htm


\ab-JUR\, transitive verb: 1. To renounce under oath. 2. To renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to reject; repudiate. 3. To abstain from; to shun.
dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2002/04/19.html



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