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abundant, a.|əˈbʌndənt|
For forms cf. abundance.
[a. OFr. abundant, abondant, hab-:—L. abundant-em overflowing, pres. pple. of abundā-re, f. ab away from + undā-re to flow in waves, f. unda a wave. For initial h- see abundance.]
1. Overflowing, more than sufficient; existing in great plenty, plentiful, ample; (properly of fluids, but transferred to other substances and to qualities).
c1450Trevisa Higden (Rolls Ser.) I. 367 The water was so habundante that hit pereschede þe woman with here childe. 1509Fisher Wks. (1876) 120 Where synne is haboundant charity waxeth colde. 1535Coverdale Dan. v. 11 Because that soch an abundaunt sprete, knowlege & wisdome was founde in him. 1611Bible 1 Tim. i. 14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant, with faith, and loue. 1783Cowper Let. Nov. 24 Wks. 1876, 148 A treatment which I had abundant reason to expect. 1874Helps Soc. Press. iii. 46 The larger the town the more abundant and varied is the noise in it.
2. Possessing in excess or superfluity; hence, having great plenty, wealthy, abounding. Const. in (of obs.)
1366Mandeville (1839) xxi. 230 To defend the and thi contree that art so habundant of Tresore. c1400Destr. Troy xiii. 5205 The same yle I said you, Cicill is calt, Ay abundand of blisse. Ibid. v. 1695 All abundaunt in blisse. c1450Trevisa Higden (Rolls Ser.) I. 108 Also that londe of Juda is..habundaunt in hony & mylke. 1526Tindale 2 Cor. xi. 23 They are the ministers of Christ..I am moare; in labours moare aboundant. 1611Bible Isa. lvi. 12 To morrow shal be as this day, and much more abundant. 1789–96Morse Amer. Geog. II. 42 The river Motala..is very abundant in salmon. c1854Stanley Sinai & Palest. (1858) vii. 313 The one river of Palestine..abundant in its waters.
3. quasi-adv.
a1725Pope Odyssey xvi. 237 They wept abundant and they wept aloud.
4. Math. [tr. Gr. ὑπερτέλειος beyond completeness or perfection (Theon Smyrnæus, 2nd c. a.d.).] Designating a number whose divisors (including 1) add up to more than the number. Cf. deficient a. 1 c, perfect a. 8.
1557R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. A. ivv, Imperfecte nombers be suche, whose partes added together, doe make either more or lesse, then the whole nomber it self... And if the partes make more then the whole nomber, then is that nomber called superfluouse, or abundaunt. 1709V. Mandey System. Math. 5 There are found but few Perfect Numbers... All the rest are abundant or deficient. 1966Ogilvy & Anderson Excursions in Number Theory ii. 23, The problem has been completely solved for even numbers: 26, 28, 34, and 46 are the only even numbers greater than 24 that are not the sum of two abundant numbers. 1983Austral. Personal Computer Nov. 136/1 Problem. Submit a program..to determine if a given integer is perfect, abundant or deficient. |