Abet
- n. Act of abetting; aid.
- v. t. To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; — used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
- v. t. To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; — in a good sense.
- v. t. To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.