WORD OF THE DAY: ABESSED

ABESSED
 
ADJ.
humbled, abased, cast down, debased, dejected ...1707 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from the French abaisser (to depress, to abase, to humiliate)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1707 - Abessed, (Fr.) debased, dejected, or brought down
From: Glossographia Anglicana Nova, Or, A Dictionary Interpreting Such Hard Words of whatever Language, as are at present used in the English tongue
- Thomas Blount