aband

present singular third person abands · participle present abanding · participle past abanded · past abanded

1. obsoletetransitiveTo desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce.First known use attested only in the late 16th century
2. obsoletetransitiveTo desert; to forsake.First known use attested only in the late 16th century

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   Two brethren were their Capitaines, which hight Hengiſt and Horſus, well approov’d in warre, And both of them men of renowmed might; Who making vantage of their civill iarre, And of thoſe forreiners, which came from farre, Grew great, and got large portions of land, That in the Realme ere long they ſtronger arre, Then they which ſought at firſt their helping hand, And Vortiger enforc’t the kingdome to aband.

   1590, Edmund Spenser, Fairie Queene, Second Booke, Canto X., page 108