Abet vs Abed - What's the difference?
abet | abed |
(obsolete) To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
* 1823 , Ringan Gilhaize, The covenanters, by the author of Annals of the parish :
(archaic) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid any good cause, opinion, or action; to maintain.
* 1835 , Jeremy Taylor, George Rust, The whole works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor :
(obsolete) To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
(obsolete) Fraud or cunning.
(obsolete) An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.
In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616),(Twelfth Night), II, iii
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1519647W “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days], chapter=Ep./4/2
, passage=The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed .}}
To childbed
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616), (Titus Andronicus), IV, ii
As a verb abet
is to urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.As a noun abet
is fraud or cunning.As an adverb abed is
in bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.abet
English
Verb
(abett)- Those who would exalt themselves by abetting the strength of the Godless, and the wrength of the oppressors.
- Our duty is urged, and our confidence abetted .
Quotations
* (English Citations of "abet")Synonyms
* (to instigate or encourage by aid or countenance) incite, instigate, set on, egg on, foment, advocate, countenance, encourage, second, uphold, aid, assist, support, sustain, back, connive at.Derived terms
* aid and abet * abetment * abettal * abetter, abettorNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
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abed
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- Not to be abed after midnight
- "I mean, she's brought a-bed "