(now rare) Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary. / Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets. / Arranged in an alphabetical manner.

Continuing or persisting in the same state: lasting, enduring; steadfast.

present participle of abide

The action of one who abides; the state of an abider. / (obsolete) An abode.

Differing from the norm. / (sometimes figuratively) Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth. / (botany, zoology) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.

A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group. / (biology) A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.

(nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of.

(nautical) On the aft side; in the stern. / (nautical, obsolete) Backwards.

(transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.

(law) Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title. / Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.