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ABATEMENT (derived through the French...

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 7 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABATEMENT (derived through the French abattre, from the
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Late Latin battere, to beat)
, a beating down or diminishing or doing away with ; a
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term used especially in various legal phrases .

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