Wait_on vs Abet - What's the difference?
wait_on | abet | Related terms |
(colloquial) To wait for an event.
To wait for a person to do something.
To serve someone.
* Shakespeare
To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony.
To follow, as a consequence; to await.
* Dr. H. More
To attend to; to perform.
* Bible, Numbers iii. 10
To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung; said of a hawk.
(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.
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Wait_on is a related term of abet.
As verbs the difference between wait_on and abet
is that wait_on is (colloquial) to wait for an event while abet is (obsolete|transitive) to urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable .As a noun abet is
(obsolete) fraud or cunning .wait_on
English
Verb
- I'm waiting on the light to change.
- I'm waiting on you before we can leave.
- Is someone waiting on you yet?
- I must wait on myself, must I?
- that ruin that waits on such a supine temper
- Aaron and his sons shall wait on their priest's office.
- The airplane had to wait on the runway for a few minutes before it could take off.
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 .